Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 49
You looked so well, and the weather in the street was horrible!'
Who acts: You, weather · What happens: look, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, weather), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 horrible | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 horrible | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weather | det |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horrible | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 street | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 street | det |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weather | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 horrible | cop |
| 13 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 horrible | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | You | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the weather in the street | horrible 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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