Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 45

She was always laughing or singing and twining red flowers in her black hair.

Who acts: sting · What happens: laugh, sing, twine · To what, where: red flowers, black hair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sting), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughing	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 laughing	advmod
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 singing	cc
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughing	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twining	cc
8	twining	twine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughing	conj
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twining	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 hair	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hair	amod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twining	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	sting			always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund	sting not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	twine	gerund	sting not said here	red flowers	sting's black hair		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=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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