Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 175
She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed her, each wearing a bright star in her hair.
Who acts: countenance, train, each · What happens: be, follow, wear · To what, where: countenance, bright star, hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countenance, train, each), 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 | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beautiful | cc |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 train | det |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 maidens | case |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maidens | amod |
| 12 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 train | nmod |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wearing | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 wearing | nsubj |
| 17 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 followed | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 star | det |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 star | amod |
| 20 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wearing | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 star | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | countenance | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | countenance not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | follow | past | a train of lovely maidens | countenance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | gerund | each | a bright star | countenance's hair | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent star=Source |
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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