Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 64
The green silk dress waved in large folds, but did not entirely hide the pretty foot and ankle.
Who acts: green silk dress · What happens: wave, not hide · To what, where: green silk dress, pretty foot
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 (green silk dress), 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 | 4 dress | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dress | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dress | compound |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | waved | wave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dress | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 folds | case |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 folds | amod |
| 8 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hide | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hide | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hide | advmod |
| 13 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 14 hide | advmod |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foot | amod |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ankle | cc |
| 19 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foot | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | participle | the green silk dress not said here | in large folds | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not hide | past · do-support | the green silk dress | the pretty foot and ankle | entirely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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