Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 22
She lifted her graceful round arm, and her satin dress rustled.
Who acts: light, satin dress · What happens: lift, rustle · To what, where: graceful round arm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, satin dress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arm | amod |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arm | amod |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rustled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rustled | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | satin | satin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dress | amod |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rustled | nsubj |
| 12 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lifted | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | light | light's graceful round arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rustle | participle | light's satin dress | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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