Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 170

She wears a dress of heavy, rich silk, with large flowers worked on it; and it rustles when she moves.

Who acts: face, large flowers, dress · What happens: wear, work, rustle, move · To what, where: dress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, large flowers, dress), 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	2 wears	nsubj
2	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dress	det
4	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 silk	case
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silk	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silk	amod
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dress	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worked	punct
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 worked	mark
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 worked	nsubj
14	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wears	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worked	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rustles	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rustles	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rustles	nsubj
20	rustles	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wears	conj
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 moves	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 moves	nsubj
23	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rustles	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	present	face	a dress of heavy rich silk		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
2	work	past	large flowers		on silk	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme
3	rustle	present	dress			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	present	face			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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