Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 19
She dropped her arms, glanced at him with pale cheeks and looks of amazement.
Who acts: action · What happens: drop, glance · To what, where: arms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (action), 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 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glanced | punct |
| 6 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dropped | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 glanced | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cheeks | case |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cheeks | amod |
| 11 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glanced | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looks | cc |
| 13 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cheeks | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 amazement | case |
| 15 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looks | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | action | action's arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glance | past | action not said here | at man; with pale cheeks and looks of amazement | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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