Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 70
In white crape and lace she was like a floating swan.
Who acts: Psyche · What happens: float, be · To what, where: white crape
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 (Psyche), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 crape | case |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crape | amod |
| 3 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swan | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lace | cc |
| 5 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crape | conj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swan | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swan | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 swan | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 swan | det |
| 10 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 swan | amod |
| 11 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Psyche | white crape and lace | like a floating swan | tree rules |
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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