Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 97
Her skin was delicately fair, and beneath her long dark eye-lashes her laughing blue eyes shone with truth and purity.
Who acts: skin, laughing blue eyes · What happens: be, laugh, shine · To what, where: long dark eye lashes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, laughing blue eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 4 | delicately | delicately | ADV | _ | 5 fair | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shone | cc |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 lashes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lashes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lashes | amod |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lashes | amod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lashes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 eye | punct |
| 14 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shone | obl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fair | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 truth | case |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shone | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 purity | cc |
| 23 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 truth | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mermaid's skin | delicately, fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shine | participle | mermaid's laughing blue eyes | mermaid's long dark eye lashes | with truth and purity | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath lash=Location |
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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