Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 46
The daughters drew on their shawls and bowed down to the ground.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: draw, bow down · To what, where: shawls
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 (daughters), 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 | 2 daughters | det |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shawls | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shawls | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shawls | shawl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bowed | cc |
| 8 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bowed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the daughters | moonshine's shawls | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shawl=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bow down | past | the daughters not said here | to the ground; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
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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