Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 117
The people who alighted from them were all richly-dressed ladies.
Who acts: people · What happens: alight, dress, be · To what, where: richly dressed ladies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 alighted | nsubj |
| 4 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alighted | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ladies | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 ladies | advmod |
| 9 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ladies | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 richly | punct |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ladies | amod |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ladies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | the people | from People | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the people | richly dressed ladies | all property | tree rules |
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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