Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 10
She was very appreciative, and incredibly ignorant--a kind of female Gaspar Hauser.
Who acts: widow · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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 | 4 appreciative | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appreciative | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 appreciative | advmod |
| 4 | appreciative | appreciative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ignorant | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ignorant | cc |
| 7 | incredibly | incredibly | ADV | _ | 8 ignorant | advmod |
| 8 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appreciative | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kind | det |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appreciative | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Gaspar | case |
| 13 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Gaspar | amod |
| 14 | Gaspar | Gaspar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kind | nmod |
| 15 | Hauser | Hauser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gaspar | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appreciative | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | widow | appreciative property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | widow not said here | incredibly property | 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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