Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 2
Every winter she wore a wrapper of yellow satin, and it always remained new, and was the only fashion she followed.
Who acts: winter, wrapper, Moon · What happens: wear, remain, be, follow · To what, where: wrapper, only fashion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, wrapper, Moon), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 winter | det |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wrapper | det |
| 6 | wrapper | wrapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 satin | case |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 satin | amod |
| 9 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapper | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remained | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remained | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 remained | advmod |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wore | conj |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 remained | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fashion | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fashion | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fashion | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fashion | det |
| 20 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fashion | amod |
| 21 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | every winter | a wrapper of yellow satin | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wrapper=Source | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | wrapper | always, new property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the only fashion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | Moon | the only fashion not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fashion=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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