Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 63

Round her delicate foot clung the silken boot, chestnut brown in color, like the ribbon that floated from her hair down upon her bare shoulders.

Who acts: ribbon · What happens: cling, float · To what, where: silken boot, color, 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 (ribbon), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	4 foot	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 foot	amod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
5	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boot	det
7	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boot	amod
8	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chestnut	punct
10	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boot	conj
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chestnut	amod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 color	case
13	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ribbon	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 ribbon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ribbon	det
17	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 floated	nsubj
19	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ribbon	acl:relcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 hair	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 floated	obl
23	down	down	ADV	_	19 floated	advmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 shoulders	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulders	nmod:poss
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoulders	amod
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 floated	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	past		the silken boot and chestnut		color		round portal's delicate foot; like the ribbon	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boot=Theme
2	float	past	the ribbon			portal's hair		upon portal's bare shoulders; down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hair=Source upon shoulder=Trajectory

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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