Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 25
She was wrapped in a fur; but when this was taken off, and she lay in my mother's lap, three silver coins were found fastened in her dark hair; they were all her possessions.
Who acts: girl, three silver coins, coins · What happens: wrap, take off, lie, find, fasten, be · To what, where: girl, fur, this, lap, three silver coins, dark hair
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 (girl, three silver coins, coins), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fur | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fur | det |
| 6 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 taken | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrapped | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 taken | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lap | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lap | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 coins | nummod |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coins | compound |
| 26 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lay | conj |
| 29 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 found | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hair | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hair | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hair | amod |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fastened | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 possessions | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 possessions | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 possessions | cop |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 possessions | advmod |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 39 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | girl | a fur | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fur=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take off | past · passive | this | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | girl | my mother's lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | three silver coins | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fasten | participle | three silver coins not said here | girl's dark hair | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | coins = coin | girl's possessions | all property | tree rules |
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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