Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 12

Instead of the velvet and silk dresses, they gave her the coats of mail which she had woven to cover her, and the bundle of nettles for a pillow; but nothing they could give her would have pleased her more.

Who acts: dresses, nothing · What happens: give, weave, cover, have · To what, where: bundle, Eliza

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (dresses, nothing), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	4 velvet	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 velvet	det
4	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dresses	cc
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dresses	compound
7	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 velvet	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 velvet	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coats	det
13	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 which	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mail	case
15	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coats	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 woven	nsubj:pass
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 woven	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woven	aux
19	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gave	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cover	mark
21	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 woven	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cover	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bundle	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bundle	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bundle	det
26	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 nettles	case
28	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bundle	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 pillow	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pillow	det
31	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nettles	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 have	cc
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 have	nsubj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 nothing	acl:relcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	conj
41	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 have	xcomp
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 more	nmod:poss
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 pleased	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	dresses = dress	the bundle of nettles for a pillow	Eliza	instead the velvet and silk dresses	tree rules
2	weave	past · perfect · passive					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	cover	to-infinitive			Eliza		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination
4	give	could	dresses = dress		Eliza		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	have	would	nothing			pleased property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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