Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 197
Each of the elf-maidens gave a little piece of her veil.
Who acts: Each · What happens: give · To what, where: little piece
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 maidens | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maidens | det |
| 4 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maidens | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 elf | punct |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Each | nmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 piece | amod |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 veil | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 veil | nmod:poss |
| 13 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Each | a little piece of present's veil | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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