Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 59

There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so ferocious!

Who acts: widow, I, that · What happens: become, glow, leave, stand, get, be · To what, where: widow, first opera dancer, me

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, I, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dancer	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 widow	parataxis
9	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 became	xcomp
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glowing	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 left	advcl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	ccomp
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 got	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 black	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dancer	cop
25	also	also	ADV	_	29 dancer	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dancer	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 dancer	amod
28	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dancer	compound
29	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dancer	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 gave	iobj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 cut	nsubj
35	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gave	parataxis
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 go	nsubj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 go	nsubj
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 go	advmod
39	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cut	ccomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	39 go	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ferocious	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ferocious	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 ferocious	cop
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 ferocious	advmod
45	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gave	conj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	a widow					tree rules
2	glow	gerund	a widow not said here				hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past	I	widow				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	stand	gerund	I not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	get	past	widow				black property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past		the first opera dancer				tree rules
7	give	past	widow		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	cut	past	that					tree rules
9	go	present				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	past	widow				ferocious property	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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