Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 116

A long, white garment fell in graceful folds over her delicate form, and on her white neck and bosom hung a chain entwined with old and new coins, forming a kind of collar.

Who acts: long white garment, garment · What happens: fall, hang, entwine, form · To what, where: graceful folds, chain, white neck, kind

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 (long white garment, garment), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garment	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garment	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garment	amod
5	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 folds	case
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folds	amod
9	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 form	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 form	nmod:poss
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 form	amod
13	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hung	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 neck	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 neck	amod
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bosom	cc
21	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neck	conj
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chain	det
24	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obj
25	entwined	entwine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 chain	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 coins	case
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coins	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 new	cc
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 old	conj
30	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 entwined	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forming	punct
32	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hung	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 kind	det
34	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forming	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 collar	case
36	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kind	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a long white garment		graceful folds	over garment's delicate form	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fold=Location
2	hang	past	a long white garment not said here	a chain	garment's white neck and bosom		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chain=Theme on neck=Destination
3	entwine	participle		a chain not said here		with old coins	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with coin=Co-Patient
4	form	gerund	a long white garment not said here	a kind of collar			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kind=Theme
5	form		garment				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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