Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 38
Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips in their hands, rode by her side on coal-black horses.
Who acts: Twelve lovely maidens · What happens: dress, hold, ride · To what, where: golden tulips, hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twelve lovely maidens), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 maidens | nummod |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maidens | amod |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dresses | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silk | amod |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maidens | nmod |
| 7 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dresses | advcl |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tulips | amod |
| 11 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dresses | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 horses | case |
| 21 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 black | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 coal | punct |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horses | amod |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rode | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk not said here | golden tulips | maidens's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tulip=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | ride | past | Twelve lovely maidens in white silk not said here | by princess's side; on black horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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