Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 46
She was really beautiful; but some said she was rather dull, and slept late of a morning.
Who acts: name, some · What happens: be, say, sleep · 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 (name, some), 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 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dull | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dull | cop |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 dull | advmod |
| 12 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slept | cc |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 slept | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | name | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | name | dull property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | some not said here | morning | late property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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