Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 234
The fairy threw off her dazzling attire, bent back the boughs, and in another moment was hidden among them.
Who acts: fairy, dazzling attire · What happens: throw off, bend, hide · To what, where: dazzling attire, boughs
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 (fairy, dazzling attire), 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 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 attire | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 attire | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dazzling | dazzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attire | amod |
| 7 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 attire | acl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 boughs | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boughs | det |
| 12 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hidden | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hidden | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hidden | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hidden | aux:pass |
| 19 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hidden | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | the fairy | fairy's dazzling attire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | fairy's dazzling attire not said here | the boughs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · passive | the fairy not said here | moment | among boughs = bough | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: among they=Location |
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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