Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 70

Kaela was silent; but her eyes shone, her lips smiled, every movement was graceful,--in fact, she was beautiful; that cannot be repeated too often.

Who acts: Kaela, eyes, lips, movement · What happens: be, shine, smile, not repeat · To what, where: fact, 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 (Kaela, eyes, lips, movement), 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	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 silent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	cop
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 shone	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 shone	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shone	nsubj
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smiled	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lips	nmod:poss
11	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 smiled	nsubj
12	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shone	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 graceful	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 movement	det
15	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 graceful	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 graceful	cop
17	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smiled	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fact	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 fact	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 fact	case
21	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 graceful	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beautiful	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beautiful	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 beautiful	cop
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 graceful	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 repeated	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 repeated	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 repeated	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 repeated	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 repeated	aux:pass
31	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 silent	parataxis
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 often	advmod
33	often	often	ADV	_	31 repeated	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kaela			silent property	tree rules
2	shine	past	Kaela's eyes				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smile	past	Kaela's lips				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	every movement		fact	graceful property	tree rules
5	is	past	Kaela			beautiful property	tree rules
6	not repeat	can · passive		that		often property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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