Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 198
The fairest of the ladies plucked one of the roses and hid it in her bosom.
Who acts: fairest, France · What happens: pluck, hide, bosom · To what, where: one, afar, bosom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairest, France), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairest | det |
| 2 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ladies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plucked | obl |
| 6 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 plucked | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 roses | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roses | det |
| 10 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plucked | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bosom | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | the fairest | one of the roses | of the ladies | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme of lady=Source | |||
| 2 | hide | past | the fairest not said here | afar | France's bosom | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in bosom=Location | |||
| 3 | bosom | France | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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: «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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