Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 101
Her appearance created a new atmosphere in the doll's house, and air was really required, they all owned that.
Who acts: appearance, eyes · What happens: create, require, own · To what, where: new atmosphere, house, air, that
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 (appearance, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 created | nsubj |
| 3 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 atmosphere | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 atmosphere | amod |
| 6 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 created | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doll | det |
| 9 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 doll | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 created | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 required | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 required | cc |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 required | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 required | aux:pass |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 required | advmod |
| 17 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 created | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 owned | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 owned | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 owned | advmod |
| 21 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 required | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 owned | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | Sophy's appearance | a new atmosphere | the doll's house | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Result | |||
| 2 | require | past · passive | air | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | own | past | eyes = eye | that | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=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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