Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 41

While she was eating them the old woman combed out her long flaxen ringlets with a golden comb, and the glossy curls hung down on each side of the little round pleasant face, which looked fresh and blooming as a rose. "

Who acts: Gerda, old woman, little round pleasant face · What happens: eat, comb out, hang down, look, bloom · To what, where: cherries, long flaxen ringlets, glossy curls, side

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, old woman, little round pleasant face), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 combed	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combed	nsubj
9	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 combed	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ringlets	nmod:poss
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ringlets	amod
13	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ringlets	amod
14	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 combed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 comb	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 comb	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 comb	amod
18	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hung	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 curls	det
22	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 curls	amod
23	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	nsubj:pass
24	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 combed	parataxis
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 hung	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 face	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 face	amod
32	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 face	amod
33	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 face	amod
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 looked	nsubj
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 face	acl:relcl
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 looked	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 blooming	cc
40	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hung	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 rose	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rose	det
43	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 blooming	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 combed	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 combed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	Gerda	cherries = cherry			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	comb out	past	the old woman	Gerda's long flaxen ringlets		with a golden comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient
3	hang down	participle · passive		the glossy curls	each side of the little round pleasant face		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on side=Destination
4	look	past	the little round pleasant face			fresh property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	bloom	gerund				as a rose	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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