Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 49

The 'prima donna' would only act when the lights were red, for she declared that a blue light did not suit her complexion.

Who acts: prima donna, lights, donna, blue light · What happens: act, be, declare, not suit · To what, where: complexion

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prima donna, lights, donna, blue light), 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	4 donna	det
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 donna	punct
3	prima	prima	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 donna	compound
4	donna	donna	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 act	nsubj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 donna	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 act	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 act	advmod
8	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 red	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 red	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 red	cop
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 act	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 declared	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 declared	nsubj
17	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 act	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 suit	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 light	det
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 light	amod
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suit	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 suit	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 suit	advmod
24	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 declared	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 complexion	nmod:poss
26	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suit	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 act	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	would	the prima donna			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the lights		red property	tree rules
3	declare speech: other	past	donna			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not suit	past · do-support	a blue light	donna's complexion		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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