Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 92
Even the hostess, with bare feet, uncombed hair, and dressed in a garment of doubtful color, received the guests grumblingly.
Who acts: hostess · What happens: uncomb, dress, receive · To what, where: uncombed hair, garment, guests
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostess), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 hostess | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hostess | det |
| 3 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 received | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hostess | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 9 | uncombed | uncomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hair | amod |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hair | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 garment | det |
| 16 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 color | case |
| 18 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 color | amod |
| 19 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 garment | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hostess | punct |
| 21 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 guests | det |
| 23 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 received | obj |
| 24 | grumblingly | grumblingly | ADV | _ | 21 received | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncomb | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dress | participle | uncombed hair not said here | a garment of doubtful color | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the hostess and bare feet | the guests | grumblingly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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