Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 18
"I looked at her, and she was sitting motionless, with her hands in her lap.
Who acts: coverlet · What happens: look, sit · To what, where: lap
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coverlet), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sitting | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sitting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sitting | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hands | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sitting | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lap | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lap | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past | coverlet | at coverlet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | coverlet | coverlet's lap | with coverlet's hands; motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=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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