Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 91
Kaela looked like a doll in a doll's house, for everything was bright and new, and so fine.
Who acts: Kaela, everything · What happens: look, be
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, everything), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 doll | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 doll | det |
| 5 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 doll | det |
| 8 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 doll | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bright | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bright | case |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 bright | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bright | cop |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 new | cc |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bright | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fine | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fine | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 fine | advmod |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bright | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Kaela | like a doll; in a doll's house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | everything | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | everything not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | everything not said here | 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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