Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 26

She certainly might have asked more sensible questions; but if she had not been allowed to say just what she liked, would her daughter have been there, leaning so gracefully on her shoulder, and looking straight before her, with a smile that was almost mournful on her face?

Who acts: pope, daughter, smile · What happens: ask, not allow, say, like, be, lean · To what, where: sensible questions, pope, shoulder, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pope, daughter, smile), 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	5 asked	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	aux
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 sensible	advmod
7	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 questions	amod
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asked	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 allowed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 allowed	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 allowed	aux:pass
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 say	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	conj
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 what	advmod
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	nsubj
22	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 daughter	punct
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 daughter	aux
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	parataxis
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 there	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 daughter	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leaning	punct
31	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 say	advcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 gracefully	advmod
33	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	31 leaning	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 shoulder	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shoulder	nmod:poss
36	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leaning	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 looking	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 looking	cc
39	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 leaning	conj
40	straight	straight	ADV	_	39 looking	advmod
41	before	before	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 looking	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 smile	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 smile	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 smile	det
46	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 looking	obl
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 mournful	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 mournful	cop
49	almost	almost	ADV	_	50 mournful	advmod
50	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 smile	acl:relcl
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 face	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 face	nmod:poss
53	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 mournful	obl
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	might · perfect	pope	sensible questions			certainly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	not allow a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		pope				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	pope not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	like	past	pope					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	present · perfect	pope's daughter not said here				there property	tree rules
6	lean	gerund	pope not said here		pope's shoulder		gracefully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
7	look	gerund	pope not said here			before pope	with a smile; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before she=Theme
8	is	past	a smile		pope's face		almost, mournful 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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