Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 141

She puts it on, ties a saffron-colored kerchief round her neck, and then the gown looks whiter.

Who acts: garret, gown · What happens: put on, tie, color, look · To what, where: dress, colored kerchief

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garret, gown), 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 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 puts	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	2 puts	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ties	punct
6	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kerchief	det
8	saffron	saffron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 colored	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 saffron	punct
10	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 kerchief	amod
11	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ties	obj
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 neck	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ties	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looks	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looks	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 looks	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gown	det
19	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looks	nsubj
20	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	conj
21	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 looks	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put on	present	garret	dress			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	tie	present	garret not said here	a colored kerchief		round garret's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	present	the gown		then	white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: «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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