Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 40
Her dress was of cloth of gold, and the whip she held in her hand looked like a sunbeam.
Who acts: dress, princess, whip · What happens: be, hold, look · To what, where: whip, hand
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 (dress, princess, whip), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cloth | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whip | det |
| 11 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whip | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cloth | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 sunbeam | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sunbeam | det |
| 20 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess's dress | of cloth; of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | princess | the whip not said here | princess's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whip=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | look | past | the whip | like a sunbeam | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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