Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 7
They had a very singular appearance in their rough, hairy dresses of fur, and riding in sledges over the ice.
Who acts: natives · What happens: have · To what, where: singular appearance, rough hairy dresses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 appearance | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 singular | advmod |
| 5 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appearance | amod |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dresses | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dresses | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rough | punct |
| 11 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dresses | amod |
| 12 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fur | case |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dresses | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 riding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 riding | cc |
| 17 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sledges | case |
| 19 | sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 riding | nmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 ice | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ice | det |
| 22 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 riding | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | natives = native | a singular appearance | natives's rough hairy dresses of fur | riding in sledges over the ice obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
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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