Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 52

One day, however, as she sat looking at the old woman's hat with the painted flowers on it, she saw that the prettiest of them all was a rose.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: sit, look, paint, see, be · To what, where: prettiest, rose

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 however	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	24 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	advcl
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	15 hat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hat	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 woman	case
15	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
18	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 flowers	amod
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looking	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flowers	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 prettiest	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prettiest	det
27	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 saw	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 prettiest	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 rose	det
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rose	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rose	det
33	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prettiest	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Gerda			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	Gerda not said here		with the painted flowers on hat; at the old woman's hat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hat=Theme
3	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Gerda	the prettiest	however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pretty=Stimulus
5	is a	past		all rose		tree rules

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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