Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 3
A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and girt round with iron rings.
What happens: make, girt · To what, where: maiden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kind | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 maiden | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | altogether | altogether | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broad | punct |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wood | amod |
| 13 | below | below | ADV | _ | 12 broad | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 girt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 girt | cc |
| 16 | girt | girt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 girt | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rings | case |
| 19 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rings | compound |
| 20 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 girt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | a maiden of this kind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product | |||||
| 2 | girt | infinitive | with iron rings; round property | tree rules |
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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