Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 76
The women were represented in dresses of velvet and silk, with tiny little hats, embroidered with pearls, on their braided hair.
What happens: represent, embroider · To what, where: women, tiny little hats
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: 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 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | aux:pass |
| 4 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dresses | case |
| 6 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 represented | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 velvet | case |
| 8 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dresses | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silk | cc |
| 10 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 velvet | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hats | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hats | case |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hats | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hats | amod |
| 15 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 represented | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 embroidered | punct |
| 17 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hats | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pearls | case |
| 19 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 embroidered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hair | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hair | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | braided | braided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past · passive | the women | on women's braided hair; in dresses of velvet and silk | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in dress=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | embroider | participle | tiny little hats not said here | with pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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