Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 17
She was received most cordially; her godmother was a very friendly woman, with a round, smiling countenance.
Who acts: godmother · What happens: receive, be, smile · To what, where: party, friendly woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 cordially | advmod |
| 5 | cordially | cordially | ADV | _ | 3 received | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 woman | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 friendly | advmod |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 countenance | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 countenance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 countenance | det |
| 17 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 countenance | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 round | punct |
| 19 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 countenance | amod |
| 20 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | party | cordially property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | party's godmother | a friendly woman and a round smiling countenance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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