Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 8
Her shoes were gilt, and her dress had a red rose or an ornament.
Who acts: shoes, dress · What happens: be, have · To what, where: red rose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, dress), 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 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gilt | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gilt | cop |
| 4 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gilt | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rose | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | amod |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ornament | cc |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ornament | det |
| 15 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | few's shoes | gilt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | few's dress | a red rose or a ornament | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=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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