Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 39
Her pale handsome face was bent in a listening attitude towards the forest.
What happens: bend, listen · To what, where: pale handsome face, listening attitude
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bent | aux:pass |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 attitude | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 attitude | det |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 attitude | amod |
| 10 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past · passive | last's pale handsome face | a listening attitude | towards the forest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in attitude=Location | |||
| 2 | listen | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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