Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 9
Here was a well-known face at last--a round, friendly countenance, the face of a good friend I had known at home.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, be · To what, where: known face, last, good friend, home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 face | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 face | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 face | det |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 face | amod |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 face | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 countenance | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 countenance | det |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countenance | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 round | punct |
| 14 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countenance | amod |
| 15 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 face | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 countenance | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 friend | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 face | nmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 known | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 known | aux |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 friend | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 known | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a known face and a round friendly countenance and the face of a good friend | last; here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past · perfect | I | a good friend not said here | home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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