Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 72
Some of them were not taller than the breadth of a finger, and they wore golden combs in their long, yellow hair.
Who acts: Some, elves · What happens: not be, wear · To what, where: golden combs, long yellow hair
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 (Some, elves), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 taller | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taller | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 taller | advmod |
| 6 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 breadth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 breadth | det |
| 9 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taller | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 finger | det |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breadth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wore | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wore | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wore | nsubj |
| 16 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taller | conj |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 combs | amod |
| 18 | combs | comb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wore | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hair | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Some | than the breadth of a finger; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | elves = elf | golden combs | elves's long yellow hair | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent comb=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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