Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 28

Her lovely hair hung loose on her shoulders, her cheeks were deadly pale, her lips moved silently, while her fingers still worked at the green flax.

Who acts: lovely hair, lips, fingers · What happens: hang, be, move, work · To what, where: lovely hair, shoulders

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 (lovely hair, lips, fingers), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hair	amod
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pale	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hair	acl
5	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 hung	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulders	nmod:poss
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cheeks	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cheeks	nmod:poss
11	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hair	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pale	cop
13	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pale	amod
14	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moved	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moved	nsubj
18	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pale	parataxis
19	silently	silently	ADV	_	18 moved	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 worked	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 worked	mark
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fingers	nmod:poss
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 worked	nsubj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 worked	advmod
25	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 moved	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 flax	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flax	det
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flax	amod
29	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 worked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle		swan's lovely hair and swan's cheeks not said here	swan's shoulders		loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
2	is	past	swan's lovely hair and swan's cheeks				pale property	tree rules
3	move	past	swan's lips				silently property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	work	past	swan's fingers			still	at the green flax	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flax=Theme

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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