Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 42

While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden comb, and her hair curled and shone with a lovely golden color around that sweet little face, which was so round and so like a rose.

Who acts: Gerda, old woman, hair, sweet little face · What happens: eat, comb, curl, shine, be · To what, where: hair

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, old woman, hair, sweet little face), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 combed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combed	nsubj
9	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combed	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 comb	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 comb	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comb	amod
15	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 curled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 curled	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curled	nsubj
20	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 combed	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shone	cc
22	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 curled	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 color	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 color	det
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 color	amod
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 color	amod
27	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shone	obl
28	around	around	ADP	_	32 face	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 face	nsubj
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 color	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 round	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 round	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 round	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 round	advmod
37	round	round	ADV	_	32 face	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 so	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	37 round	conj
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 rose	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 rose	det
42	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 round	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 combed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	Gerda			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comb	past	the old woman	Gerda's hair	with a golden comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	curl	participle	Gerda's hair			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
4	shine	participle	Gerda's hair not said here		with a lovely golden color around sweet little face	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme
5	is	past	sweet little face		like a rose; round property	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: «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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