Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 54

One day while she was looking at the hat of the old woman painted with flowers, the most beautiful of them all seemed to her to be a rose.

Who acts: Gerda, One day · What happens: look, paint, seem, be · To what, where: One day, hat, old woman, Gerda, rose

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, One day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 hat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hat	det
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hat	nmod
14	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 woman	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 painted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beautiful	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beautiful	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hat	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 beautiful	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	30 rose	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 rose	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rose	det
30	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Gerda	One day not said here		the hat of the old woman		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Attribute
2	paint	participle		the old woman not said here			with flowers	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
3	seem	past	One day		Gerda			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	One day not said here	a rose				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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