Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 18

When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs; it was still an angelic face, with its white locks of silvery hair.

Who acts: head · What happens: resemble, be · To what, where: child, angelic face

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 (head), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 resembled	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resembled	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	appos
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 resembled	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 resembled	aux
9	resembled	resemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 resembled	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 cherubs	case
12	Raphael	Raphael	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cherubs	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Raphael	case
14	cherubs	cherub	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 face	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 face	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 face	cop
18	still	still	ADV	_	21 face	advmod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 face	det
20	angelic	angelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resembled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 locks	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 locks	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 locks	nmod:poss
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 locks	amod
26	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 face	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hair	case
28	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hair	amod
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 locks	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 resembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	must · perfect · passive		a child					tree rules
2	is a	past	head	a angelic face and head's white locks of silvery hair			still		tree rules

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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