Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 10
A beautiful girl, with a golden crown on her head, and long, shining hair, gave him her hand; and his father said, "See what a bride you have won.
Who acts: beautiful girl, father, you · What happens: shine, give, say, see, win · To what, where: hand, John, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful girl, father, you), 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 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crown | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crown | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crown | amod |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crown | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hair | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hair | cc |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shining | punct |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gave | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 See | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 See | punct |
| 30 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | conj |
| 31 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 33 bride | det |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bride | det |
| 33 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 See | obj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 won | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 won | aux |
| 36 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 bride | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | a beautiful girl with a golden crown on last's head and long shining hair | last's hand | John | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | John's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | John's father not said here | what bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | win in a quote | present · perfect | you | what bride not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality |
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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