Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 8
His wife, in garments embroidered with gold, stepped proudly over the polished marble floors.
Who acts: wife · What happens: embroider, step, polish · To what, where: garments, polished marble floors
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 (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 garments | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garments | case |
| 5 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
| 6 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 garments | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embroidered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 10 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 10 stepped | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 floors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floors | det |
| 14 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 floors | amod |
| 15 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floors | compound |
| 16 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stepped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | garments not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step | past | castle's wife and garments | the polished marble floors | proudly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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