Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 110
I put on my best clothes, and the white tunic fell in graceful folds over my hips.
Who acts: I, white tunic · What happens: put, fall · To what, where: best clothes, graceful folds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, white tunic), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tunic | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tunic | amod |
| 11 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 folds | case |
| 14 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 folds | amod |
| 15 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 hips | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hips | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | I | my best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the white tunic | graceful folds | over my hips | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fold=Location |
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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