Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 101

She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: be, dazzle

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda), 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	3 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 figure	cc
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 figure	case
6	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 figure	amod
7	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tall	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whiteness	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 whiteness	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 whiteness	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whiteness	det
12	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 whiteness	amod
13	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tall	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gerda					tall property	tree rules
2	dazzle	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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