Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 69

They were, namely, casts of female friends, whose bodily or mental deformities were here most faithfully preserved.

Who acts: casts · What happens: be, preserve

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 namely	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 namely	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 namely	punct
4	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 casts	punct
6	casts	cast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 namely	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 friends	case
8	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friends	amod
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 casts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bodily	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 bodily	nmod:poss
12	bodily	bodily	ADV	_	17 here	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 deformities	cc
14	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deformities	amod
15	deformities	deformity	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bodily	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 here	cop
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 casts	advmod
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 faithfully	advmod
19	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	20 preserved	advmod
20	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 here	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 namely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	casts = cast	casts of female friends obl; namely property	tree rules
2	is	past		bodily, here property	tree rules
3	preserve	participle		faithfully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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