Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 90
She had just the same manners while playing, bending her long yellow face from side to side, and nodding in time to the beautiful music.
Who acts: Ida · What happens: have, play, bend, nod · To what, where: same manners, long yellow face, side, beautiful music
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ida), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 manners | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 manners | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 manners | amod |
| 6 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 playing | mark |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bending | punct |
| 10 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 playing | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bending | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bending | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nodding | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nodding | cc |
| 21 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 playing | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nodding | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 music | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 music | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 music | amod |
| 27 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nodding | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ida | the same manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Ida not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | Ida not said here | Ida's long yellow face | side to side | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent face=Material | |||
| 4 | nod | gerund | Ida not said here | the beautiful music | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to music=Recipient |
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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