Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 68

You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome--that you still are--and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing!

Who acts: You, bran, your · What happens: arrive, be, have, hat on, dash, letter · To what, where: long yellow silk handkerchief

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, bran, your), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 letter	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 letter	nmod:poss
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soon	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handsome	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handsome	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 handsome	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 handsome	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 handsome	advmod
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 are	advmod
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 handkerchief	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 handkerchief	amod
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 handkerchief	amod
25	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 handkerchief	compound
26	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 neck	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neck	nmod:poss
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 handkerchief	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hat	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bran	det
33	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hat	nsubj
34	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hat	amod
35	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 hat	compound:prt
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 dashing	punct
38	oh	oh	INTJ	_	43 dashing	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 oh	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 dashing	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dashing	aux
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 dashing	advmod
43	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 had	conj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	You			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	you			handsome property	tree rules
3	does	present	you		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past		a long yellow silk handkerchief		round your neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
5	hat on		a bran				tree rules
6	dash	past · progressive	you				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	letter		your				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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