Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 4
She folded her thin hands, and looked round with an air of reverence, as if she had been in a church.
Who acts: many · What happens: fold, look round, be · To what, where: thin hands, church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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 folded | nsubj |
| 2 | folded | fold | 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 | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hands | amod |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 folded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 folded | conj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reverence | case |
| 14 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 air | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 church | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 church | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 church | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 church | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 church | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 church | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | many | many's thin hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look round | past | many not said here | with a air of reverence; round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | many | a church | tree rules |
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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