Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 3
He was a beautiful creature, with slender legs, bright, intelligent eyes, and a mane that hung down over his neck like a veil.
Who acts: Emperor, mane · What happens: be, hang down · To what, where: beautiful creature, neck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, mane), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 creature | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 legs | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 8 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 creature | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bright | punct |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bright | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mane | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mane | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mane | det |
| 18 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 creature | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hung | nsubj |
| 20 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mane | acl:relcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 hung | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hung | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 veil | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 veil | det |
| 27 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hung | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Emperor | a beautiful creature and a mane | with slender legs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hang down | past | a mane | Emperor's neck | like a veil; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neck=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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