Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 59
And she gave up her beautiful hair, and received in return the white locks of the old woman.
Who acts: woman · What happens: give up, receive · To what, where: beautiful hair, return
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gave | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hair | amod |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 received | cc |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 return | case |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 locks | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 locks | amod |
| 15 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 return | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locks | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | woman | woman's beautiful hair | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Source | ||||
| 2 | receive | participle | woman not said here | return the white locks of the old woman | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in return=Location |
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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