Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 117
Her black hair was fastened into a knot, and confined by a headdress formed of gold and silver coins which had been found in an ancient temple.
What happens: fasten, confine, form, find · To what, where: black hair, headdress, gold coins, ancient temple
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2607): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hair | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fastened | aux:pass |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 knot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 knot | det |
| 8 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 confined | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 confined | cc |
| 11 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fastened | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 headdress | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 headdress | det |
| 14 | headdress | headdress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 confined | obl:agent |
| 15 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 headdress | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 coins | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coins | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 silver | cc |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gold | conj |
| 20 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 formed | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 found | aux:pass |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 coins | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 temple | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 temple | det |
| 27 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 temple | amod |
| 28 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | garment's black hair | into a knot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into knot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | confine | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | form | participle | a headdress not said here | of gold coins | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | gold coins | a ancient temple | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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