Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 74

Her sister Joanna was bright and slender as a lily; she had a tall and lofty carriage and figure, though, like her mother, rather stiff in back.

Who acts: sister, thing · What happens: be, have · To what, where: tall carriage

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 (sister, thing), 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	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	nsubj
3	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sister	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slender	cc
7	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bright	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 lily	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lily	det
10	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slender	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 carriage	det
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carriage	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lofty	cc
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tall	conj
18	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 figure	cc
20	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carriage	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 though	punct
22	though	though	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mother	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 mother	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stiff	punct
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 stiff	advmod
29	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mother	amod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 back	case
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stiff	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing's sister		bright property	tree rules
2	be		thing's sister not said here		as a lily	tree rules
3	have	past	thing	a tall carriage and figure	like thing's mother; though property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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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