Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 8
His cheeks were brown, his teeth white, and his eyes dark and sparkling.
Who acts: cheeks, teeth, eyes · What happens: be, sparkle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, teeth, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brown | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brown | cop |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 white | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 white | nsubj |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dark | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dark | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dark | nsubj |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brown | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sparkling | cc |
| 15 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dark | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rudy's cheeks | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Rudy's teeth | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Rudy's eyes | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | Rudy's eyes not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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