Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 49

And she gave her her fine black hair, and got the old woman's snow-white hair instead.

Who acts: woman, snow · What happens: give, get, hair · To what, where: fine black hair, mother

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, snow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gave	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hair	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 woman	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hair	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 white	punct
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
20	instead	instead	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	woman's fine black hair	mother		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hair=Theme
2	get	past	woman not said here			instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	hair		snow				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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