Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 86
Two pretty little girls, in dresses white as snow, and with long green ribbons fluttering from their hats, are sitting upon it swinging.
Who acts: long green ribbons, Two little girls, rope · What happens: flutter, sit, swing · To what, where: hats
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 (long green ribbons, Two little girls, rope), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 girls | nummod |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girls | amod |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dresses | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dresses | case |
| 7 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girls | appos |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dresses | amod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 white | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ribbons | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ribbons | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ribbons | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ribbons | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ribbons | amod |
| 16 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girls | conj |
| 17 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ribbons | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hats | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hats | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fluttering | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girls | punct |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sitting | aux |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 24 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 26 swinging | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 swinging | nsubj |
| 26 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sitting | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | gerund | long green ribbons not said here | girls's hats | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present · progressive | Two little girls and long green ribbons | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | rope | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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