Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 47

Her mother had worn a bright red dress, with black lace, in the Spanish style; the daughter had been attired in white, fair and delicate; green silk ribbons fluttered like flag-leaves among her yellow locks, and on her head she wore a wreath of water-lillies.

Who acts: mother · What happens: wear, attire, flutter · To what, where: mother, Spanish style, daughter, white, green silk ribbons, yellow locks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	aux
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dress	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dress	amod
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dress	amod
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lace	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 lace	case
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lace	amod
12	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 style	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 style	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 style	det
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 style	amod
17	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 attired	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 daughter	det
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attired	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 attired	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 attired	aux:pass
23	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 worn	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 white	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 attired	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fair	punct
27	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 white	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 delicate	cc
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 white	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ribbons	punct
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ribbons	amod
32	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ribbons	compound
33	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 attired	obl
34	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 ribbons	acl
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 leaves	case
36	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 leaves	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 flag	punct
38	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fluttered	obl
39	among	among	ADP	_	42 locks	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 locks	nmod:poss
41	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 locks	amod
42	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fluttered	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 wore	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wore	cc
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 head	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 head	nmod:poss
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 wore	obl
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 wore	nsubj
49	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	parataxis
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 wreath	det
51	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 wore	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 lillies	case
53	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lillies	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 water	punct
55	lillies	lilly	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 wreath	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past · perfect · passive		amid's mother	the Spanish style	with black lace	tree rules
2	attire	past · perfect · passive		the daughter	white	green silk ribbons obl	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	flutter	participle		green silk ribbons not said here	daughter's yellow locks	like flag leaves	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among lock=Location
4	wear	past	mother	a wreath of water lillies	daughter's head		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=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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