Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 19
Two fairies were they; the younger, it is true, was not Dame Fortune herself, but one of the waiting-maids of her handmaidens who carry about the lesser good things that she distributes; the other looked extremely gloomy--it was Care.
Who acts: Two fairies, skin, fairies, handmaidens, One, other · What happens: be, not be, carry, distribute, look · To what, where: fairies, Dame Fortune, Care
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two fairies, skin, fairies, handmaidens), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fairies | nummod |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 they | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 they | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Fortune | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 they | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 younger | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 they | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 younger | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 they | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Fortune | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Fortune | advmod |
| 15 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fortune | compound |
| 16 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 Fortune | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Care | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 Care | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 Care | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 maids | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maids | det |
| 23 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 maids | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 25 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 handmaidens | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 handmaidens | nmod:poss |
| 28 | handmaidens | handmaiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 maids | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 carry | nsubj |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 handmaidens | acl:relcl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 things | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 things | det |
| 33 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 things | amod |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 things | amod |
| 35 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carry | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 distributes | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 distributes | nsubj |
| 38 | distributes | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 carry | advcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 looked | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 other | det |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 looked | nsubj |
| 42 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | conj |
| 43 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 44 gloomy | advmod |
| 44 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 looked | xcomp |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 Care | punct |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 Care | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 Care | cop |
| 48 | Care | Care | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fortune | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fortune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Two fairies | fairies = fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | skin | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | fairies = fairy | Dame Fortune but Care | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | One's handmaidens | about the lesser good things | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | distribute | present | One | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | past | the other | gloomy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | one of the waiting maids of One's handmaidens | Care | 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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