Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 88

Her dress was fine as silk, green as the freshly-opened leaves on the crown of the tree; in her nut-brown hair clung a half-opened chestnut blossom.

Who acts: dress, brown hair · What happens: be, open, cling, crown · To what, where: brown hair, opened chestnut blossom, tree

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 (dress, brown hair), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dress	nmod:poss
2	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 silk	case
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 green	punct
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
11	freshly	freshly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 opened	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 freshly	punct
13	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 green	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 crown	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crown	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaves	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crown	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hair	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 hair	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
24	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brown	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 nut	punct
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
28	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hair	acl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 blossom	det
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 opened	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 half	punct
32	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 blossom	amod
33	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blossom	compound
34	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clung	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	trembling's dress		trembling's brown hair	as silk; fine property	tree rules
2	be		trembling's dress not said here			as the opened leaves on the crown of the tree	tree rules
3	open	participle					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cling	participle	trembling's brown hair not said here	a opened chestnut blossom			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme
5	open	participle					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	crown			the tree			nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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