Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 67
The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high round the neck, exceedingly warm, and with a mill-stone round her neck in the shape of a great ruff--accurately dressed after a Dutch picture in the possession of the General, in which the hands were especially admired.
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, make, dress, admire, possess · To what, where: Madame, black velvet, great ruff, possession, hands, General
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 General | det |
| 2 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 General | case |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Madame | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Madame | cop |
| 6 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Rubens | Rubens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Madame | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 velvet | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 velvet | case |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 velvet | amod |
| 11 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Madame | appos |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 velvet | acl |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 neck | det |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 warm | punct |
| 18 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 19 warm | advmod |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 velvet | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stone | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stone | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stone | det |
| 24 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stone | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mill | punct |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warm | conj |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 neck | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stone | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 shape | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shape | det |
| 32 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stone | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ruff | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 ruff | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ruff | amod |
| 36 | ruff | ruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shape | nmod |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 dressed | punct |
| 38 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 39 dressed | advmod |
| 39 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 ruff | acl |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 43 picture | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 picture | det |
| 42 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 picture | amod |
| 43 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dressed | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 possession | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 possession | det |
| 46 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dressed | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 General | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 General | det |
| 49 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 possession | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 admired | punct |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 which | case |
| 52 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 admired | obl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 hands | det |
| 54 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 admired | aux:pass |
| 56 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 57 admired | advmod |
| 57 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 dressed | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Madame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the General's lady | Madame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | black velvet not said here | round the neck; high property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | a great ruff not said here | the possession of the General | after a Dutch picture | accurately property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | admire | past · passive | the hands | especially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | possess | the General | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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