Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 213

She was light, but he was still lighter; she had never had such a partner in the dance.

Who acts: princess, stranger · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: partner, dance

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, stranger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 light	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 light	cop
3	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lighter	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 lighter	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lighter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lighter	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 lighter	advmod
9	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 light	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 light	parataxis
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 partner	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 partner	det
17	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dance	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dance	det
20	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess				light property	tree rules
2	is	past	stranger			still	light property	tree rules
3	not have	past · perfect	princess	such partner	the dance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient

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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