Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 66

“His tame sweetheart is a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg; she laments most piteously, but it's all mere talk and stuff!

Who acts: tame sweetheart, widow, sweetheart · What happens: be, wear, worst, lament · To what, where: widow, bit, mere talk

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tame sweetheart, widow, sweetheart), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 widow	punct
2	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sweetheart	nmod:poss
3	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sweetheart	amod
4	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 widow	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 widow	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 widow	det
7	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wears	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wears	cc
10	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 widow	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wears	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 black	case
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	nmod
15	worsted	worst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bit	acl
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 leg	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 leg	nmod:poss
18	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worsted	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 laments	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laments	nsubj
21	laments	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wears	conj
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 piteously	advmod
23	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	21 laments	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 talk	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 talk	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 talk	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 talk	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 mere	advmod
29	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 talk	amod
30	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 widow	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stuff	cc
32	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 talk	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 widow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Kay's tame sweetheart	a widow		tree rules
2	wear in a quote	present		a bit of black		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source
3	worst in a quote	participle		a bit of black not said here	round widow's leg	tree rules
4	lament in a quote	present	widow		piteously property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	sweetheart	mere talk and stuff		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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