Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 31

She wore a large hat to shade her from the sun, and on it were painted all sorts of pretty flowers. "

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: wear, shade, paint, sort · To what, where: large hat, Gerda, hat, pretty flowers

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 (Gerda), 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	5 hat	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hat	amod
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shade	mark
7	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wore	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shade	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shade	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 painted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 painted	cc
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 painted	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 painted	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 painted	aux:pass
17	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wore	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sorts	det
19	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 painted	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 flowers	case
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flowers	amod
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sorts	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Gerda	a large hat			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	shade	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here		Gerda	from the sun	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from sun=Theme
3	paint	past · passive		hat			vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient sort=Result
4	sort			pretty flowers			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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