Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 122
"But her hair turned as green as duckweed, and was always having to be colored up."
Who acts: hair · What happens: turn, have, color up
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hair | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 green | advmod |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 duckweed | case |
| 9 | duckweed | duckweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 green | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 having | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 having | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 having | aux |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 having | advmod |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turned | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 colored | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 colored | aux:pass |
| 17 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 having | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 colored | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | past | wife's hair | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past · progressive | wife's hair not said here | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | color up in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | wife's hair not said here | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP» |
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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