Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 1
"What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-mother; and her strange-looking eagle-eyes sparkled, while she wriggled and twisted her skinny neck more quickly and strangely than ever. "
Who acts: old foster mother, she · What happens: bring, say, look, sparkle, wriggle, twist · To what, where: beautiful things, looking eagle eyes, skinny neck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old foster mother, she), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 brought | obj |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 14 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 foster | punct |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 eyes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eyes | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looking | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 strange | punct |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eyes | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 eagle | punct |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 26 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 eyes | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wriggled | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 wriggled | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wriggled | nsubj |
| 30 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sparkled | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 twisted | cc |
| 32 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wriggled | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neck | nmod:poss |
| 34 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 neck | amod |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 twisted | obj |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 quickly | advmod |
| 37 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 32 twisted | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 strangely | cc |
| 39 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 37 quickly | conj |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 ever | case |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 strangely | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | beautiful things | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | his old foster mother | her looking eagle eyes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | sparkle | participle | her looking eagle eyes not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wriggle | past | she | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | twist | past | she not said here | her skinny neck | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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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