Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 8
What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body.
Who acts: Princess, water · What happens: be, trickle down, cling · To what, where: sad condition, clothes, hair
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, water), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rain | det |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wind | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rain | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 condition | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 condition | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 condition | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 condition | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 condition | det |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 condition | amod |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rain | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 trickled | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trickled | nsubj |
| 18 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 condition | acl:relcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 trickled | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trickled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clothes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clothes | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 trickled | obl |
| 27 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 clothes | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 body | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 body | nmod:poss |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clung | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Princess | a sad condition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trickle down | past | the water | Princess's clothes | Princess's hair | down property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent condition=Theme from hair=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | cling | participle | Princess's clothes not said here | to Princess's body | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to body=Co-Theme |
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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