Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 93

Patiently she allowed the women to array her in royal robes, to weave pearls in her hair, and draw soft gloves over her blistered fingers.

Who acts: head, women · What happens: allow, array, weave, draw, blister · To what, where: women, head, royal robes, pearls, hair, soft gloves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (head, women), 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	Patiently	patiently	ADV	_	3 allowed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 allowed	nsubj
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 array	mark
7	array	array	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 array	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 robes	case
10	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 robes	amod
11	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 array	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weave	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 weave	mark
14	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 array	conj
15	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 weave	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 draw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 draw	cc
21	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	conj
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gloves	amod
23	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 draw	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	27 fingers	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fingers	nmod:poss
26	blistered	blister	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fingers	amod
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 draw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	past	head	the women		patiently property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	array not said to happen	to-infinitive	the women not said here	head	royal robes		tree rules
3	weave	to-infinitive	the women not said here	pearls	head's hair		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Product
4	draw	present	head not said here	soft gloves	head's blistered fingers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme
5	blister	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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