Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 57

But the princess was very pale, and wore a black dress as if she were going to a funeral.

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, wear, go · To what, where: black dress, funeral

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 pale	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pale	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pale	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pale	advmod
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wore	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wore	cc
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pale	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dress	det
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dress	amod
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wore	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 funeral	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 funeral	det
20	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			pale property	tree rules
2	wear	past		a black dress			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
3	go	past · progressive	princess		a funeral		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_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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