Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 78
Kaela stood silent, but nodded in approbation of what he said, while mamma-in-law made the following confession:--
Who acts: Kaela, smile, mamma · What happens: stand, nod, say, make, follow · To what, where: following confession · 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 (Kaela, smile, mamma), 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 | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 nodded | cc |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 approbation | case |
| 8 | approbation | approbation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 approbation | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 15 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 law | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mamma | conj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 confession | det |
| 22 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 confession | amod |
| 23 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Kaela | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | nod | participle | Kaela not said here | in approbation | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in approbation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | mamma and law | the following confession | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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