Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 40
A young girl was riding upon it, with a shining red cap on her head, and pistols in her belt.
Who acts: young girl · What happens: ride, shine · To what, where: pistols
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 riding | aux |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 riding | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cap | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cap | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cap | det |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 cap | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cap | amod |
| 13 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cap | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pistols | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pistols | cc |
| 19 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 riding | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 belt | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 belt | nmod:poss |
| 22 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pistols | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 riding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · progressive | a young girl | pistols in girl's belt | upon forest; with a shining red cap on girl's head | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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