Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 84
Then the frog-skin fell off, and Helga stood before her in all her beauty, more lovely and gentle-looking, and with eyes beaming with love.
Who acts: frog skin, Helga, eyes · What happens: fall off, stand, look, beam · To what, where: beauty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog skin, Helga, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 frog | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 fell | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beauty | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 beauty | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lovely | punct |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 lovely | advmod |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looking | cc |
| 22 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 looking | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 gentle | punct |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 lovely | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eyes | cc |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 29 | beaming | beam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 eyes | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 love | case |
| 31 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beaming | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | the frog skin | then | with eyes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Helga | skin's beauty | before skin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | Helga not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | beam | gerund | eyes not said here | with love | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with love=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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