Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 137

She also saw red pomegranate flowers, like those that little Mary had worn in her dark hair.

Who acts: Whiting · What happens: see, wear · To what, where: red pomegranate flowers, dark hair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whiting), 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	3 saw	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
5	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowers	compound
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worn	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 Mary	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 Mary	det
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Mary	nsubj
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mary	amod
12	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 worn	obl
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 worn	aux
14	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hair	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worn	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Whiting	red pomegranate flowers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	wear	past · perfect	Whiting not said here			Whiting's dark hair		like that little Mary	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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