Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 9

Their shapes were too graceful, their complexions too delicate, and the cut of their dresses much too elegant.

Who acts: shapes, cut · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shapes, cut), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shapes	nmod:poss
2	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 graceful	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 graceful	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 graceful	advmod
5	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 complexions	punct
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 complexions	nmod:poss
8	complexions	complexion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 graceful	obl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 delicate	advmod
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 complexions	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 elegant	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 elegant	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cut	det
14	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 elegant	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 dresses	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dresses	nmod:poss
17	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	nmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	20 elegant	advmod
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 elegant	advmod
20	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 graceful	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 graceful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	maidens's shapes					maidens's complexions obl; graceful property	tree rules
2	be		the cut of maidens's dresses						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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