Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 57
No; she wears a dress fit for a countess" (she had become one in the city of magic changes). "
Who acts: one poor · What happens: wear, become · To what, where: dress fit
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 (one poor), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 wears | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 wears | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wears | nsubj |
| 4 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fit | det |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | compound |
| 7 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wears | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 countess | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 countess | det |
| 10 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 countess | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wears | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 become | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 changes | case |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 changes | amod |
| 22 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 city | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 changes | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wears | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | one poor = poor | a dress fit | for a countess | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fit=Source | |||
| 2 | become in a quote | past · perfect | one poor = poor | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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