Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 3
She understood well how to garnish the dish with parsley, and make it look quite tempting.
Who acts: She, dish · What happens: understand, garnish, make, look · To what, where: dish, quite tempting
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, dish), 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 | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 understood | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 garnish | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 garnish | mark |
| 6 | garnish | garnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 understood | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garnish | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 parsley | case |
| 10 | parsley | parsley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garnish | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 garnish | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tempting | amod |
| 17 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | She | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | garnish | to-infinitive | She not said here | the dish | with parsley | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dish=Destination with parsley=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | She not said here | dish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | dish not said here | quite tempting | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tempting=Attribute |
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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