Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 28

Their clothes were very delicate and fine, for they were made of the leaves of flowers, trimmed with the wings of flies and gnats, which had not a bad effect.

Who acts: clothes, flies · What happens: be, make, trim, not effect · To what, where: people, leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, flies), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 delicate	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delicate	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 delicate	advmod
5	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fine	cc
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delicate	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 made	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 delicate	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 leaves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leaves	det
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 leaves	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trimmed	punct
19	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 leaves	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 wings	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wings	det
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trimmed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 flies	case
24	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wings	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gnats	cc
26	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flies	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 effect	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 effect	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 effect	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 effect	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 effect	det
32	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 effect	amod
33	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flies	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delicate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	people's clothes		delicate property	tree rules
2	be		people's clothes not said here			tree rules
3	make	past · passive		people	of the leaves of flowers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	trim	participle		the leaves of flowers not said here	with the wings of flies and gnats and a bad effect	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=Theme
5	not effect	past	flies and gnats and a bad effect			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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