Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 32

The mother was a proud tulip, and never acknowledged the salutations of any of the men or maidens who paused in their sport to do her honor.

Who acts: mother, proud tulip, maidens, mirth · What happens: be, not acknowledge, pause, do, sport, honor · To what, where: proud tulip, salutations, sport, honor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, proud tulip, maidens, mirth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tulip	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tulip	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tulip	det
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tulip	amod
6	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 acknowledged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 acknowledged	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 acknowledged	advmod
10	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tulip	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 salutations	det
12	salutations	salutation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 acknowledged	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 any	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 salutations	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 men	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 any	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 maidens	cc
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 paused	nsubj
21	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 maidens	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sport	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sport	nmod:poss
24	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paused	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 paused	advcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 honor	nmod:poss
28	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tulip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the mother	a proud tulip		tree rules
2	not acknowledge	past	a proud tulip not said here	the salutations of any		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salutation=Topic
3	pause	past	maidens		maidens's sport	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sport=Location
4	do	to-infinitive	maidens not said here	mirth's honor		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Eventuality
5	sport		maidens = maiden			nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	honor		mirth			nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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