Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 28
She had always been silent and thoughtful, and now she was more so than ever.
Who acts: face · What happens: have, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 silent | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 silent | cop |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thoughtful | cc |
| 7 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 silent | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 more | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 more | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 ever | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 had | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | face | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | face not said here | always, silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | face not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | face | now | more 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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