Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 61
His little sister Gustava, with her blue eyes, and fair curly hair, had grown up a beautiful maiden all at once, and without having wings she could fly.
Who acts: little sister, sister · What happens: grow up, have, fly · To what, where: beautiful maiden, wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister, sister), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | Gustava | Gustava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sister | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hair | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hair | cc |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 13 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grown | aux |
| 17 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 grown | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maiden | amod |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grown | obl |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 once | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 grown | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fly | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fly | cc |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 28 having | mark |
| 28 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 fly | advcl |
| 29 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 having | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fly | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fly | aux |
| 32 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grown | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | sleep's little sister and sister's blue eyes and fair curly hair | a beautiful maiden | once property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | sister not said here | wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly | could | sister | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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