Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 9
She wore a hat, and carried a crook, that were both gilded, and looked very bright and pretty.
Who acts: few · What happens: wear, carry, gild, look · To what, where: hat, crook
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 (few), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hat | det |
| 4 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crook | det |
| 9 | crook | crook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gilded | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gilded | obj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gilded | aux:pass |
| 13 | both | both | ADV | _ | 14 gilded | advmod |
| 14 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 crook | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 bright | advmod |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pretty | cc |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bright | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | few | a hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | a crook | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crook=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gild | past · passive | a crook | both property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: that=Destination | ||||
| 4 | look | past | bright property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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