Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 38

She sang of herself and of her family, of the arrival of the potato in Europe, of the misrepresentation to which she had been exposed before she was acknowledged, as she is now, to be a greater treasure than a lump of gold.

Who acts: woman, potato · What happens: sing, expose, acknowledge, be, arrive · To what, where: woman, misrepresentation, greater treasure

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, potato), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 herself	case
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 sang	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 family	cc
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 family	nmod:poss
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 herself	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arrival	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 arrival	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 arrival	det
12	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 potato	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 potato	det
15	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrival	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Europe	case
17	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 potato	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 misrepresentation	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 misrepresentation	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 misrepresentation	det
21	misrepresentation	misrepresentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 exposed	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 exposed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 exposed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 exposed	aux:pass
27	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 misrepresentation	acl:relcl
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 acknowledged	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 acknowledged	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 acknowledged	aux:pass
31	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 exposed	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 is	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 is	nsubj
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 acknowledged	conj
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 is	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 treasure	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	42 treasure	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 treasure	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 treasure	det
41	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 treasure	amod
42	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 acknowledged	obl
43	than	than	ADP	_	45 lump	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 lump	det
45	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 treasure	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lump	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	woman				of woman	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	expose	past · perfect · passive		woman	the misrepresentation			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient
3	acknowledge	past · passive		woman				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	be	present	woman			now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		a greater treasure			than a lump of gold	tree rules
6	arrive		the potato in Europe					nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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