Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 90
Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and pretty maiden; but her robe was still the same green stuff with white flowers, which she had worn before.
Who acts: Old Nanny, robe · What happens: grow, be, wear · To what, where: all, same green stuff, white flowers
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 (Old Nanny, robe), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Nanny | amod |
| 2 | Nanny | Nanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 grown | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sudden | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sudden | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 all | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 young | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sudden | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 maiden | cc |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 young | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuff | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 stuff | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 robe | nmod:poss |
| 17 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stuff | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stuff | cop |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 stuff | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stuff | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stuff | amod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stuff | amod |
| 23 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maiden | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flowers | case |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stuff | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 worn | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 worn | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 worn | aux |
| 31 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flowers | conj |
| 32 | before | before | ADV | _ | 31 worn | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Old Nanny | all | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Nanny's robe | the same green stuff | still | with white flowers | tree rules | ||
| 3 | wear | past · perfect · passive | white flowers | before property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
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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