Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 32
She had a large broad-brimmed hat on, painted with the most splendid flowers.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: have on, brim, paint · To what, where: large brimmed hat
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 (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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hat | amod |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brimmed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 broad | punct |
| 7 | brimmed | brim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hat | amod |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 had | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 painted | punct |
| 11 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flowers | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 splendid | advmod |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flowers | amod |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 painted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have on | past | Gerda | a large brimmed hat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | brim | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | paint | participle | with the splendid flowers | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
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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