Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 132

She puts it on, and ties a saffron-colored handkerchief round her neck, which makes the dress look whiter.

Who acts: grandmother, neck, dress · What happens: put on, tie, color, make, look · To what, where: Cleanliness, colored handkerchief, dress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, neck, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 puts	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	2 puts	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ties	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ties	cc
7	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 handkerchief	det
9	saffron	saffron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 colored	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 saffron	punct
11	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 handkerchief	amod
12	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ties	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ties	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 makes	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 neck	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dress	det
20	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	obj
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	xcomp
22	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 look	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put on	present	grandmother	Cleanliness		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	tie	present		a colored handkerchief	round grandmother's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
3	color	participle				vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	grandmother's neck	the dress		tree rules
5	look	infinitive	the dress not said here		white 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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