Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 11

Just at this moment the elfin hill opened, and an old elfin maiden, hollow behind, came tripping out; she was the old elf king's housekeeper, and a distant relative of the family; therefore she wore an amber heart on the middle of her forehead.

Who acts: elfin hill, old elfin maiden, maiden · What happens: open, hollow, come, trip out, be, wear · To what, where: distant relative, housekeeper, amber heart, middle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elfin hill, old elfin maiden, maiden), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	8 opened	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	compound
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hollow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hollow	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maiden	amod
13	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maiden	compound
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hollow	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 maiden	punct
16	hollow	hollow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 opened	conj
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	16 hollow	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hollow	parataxis
20	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 came	xcomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 tripping	compound:prt
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 housekeeper	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 housekeeper	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 housekeeper	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 king	amod
27	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	compound
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 housekeeper	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 relative	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 relative	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 relative	det
34	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 relative	amod
35	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 family	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 family	det
38	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 relative	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 wore	punct
40	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	42 wore	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wore	nsubj
42	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	advcl
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 heart	det
44	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heart	compound
45	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wore	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 middle	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 middle	det
48	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wore	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 forehead	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 forehead	nmod:poss
51	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 middle	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the elfin hill	a distant relative of the family		moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hollow	infinitive	a old elfin maiden				behind property	vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	come	past						tree rules
4	trip out	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	maiden	the old elf king's housekeeper				tree rules
6	wear	past	maiden	a amber heart	the middle of maiden's forehead		therefore property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heart=Source

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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