Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 177

At her side sits a young man, tall and strong; he gives her a rose and she smiles.

Who acts: man, GRANDMOTHER · What happens: sit, give, smile · To what, where: young man, side, rose, GRANDMOTHER

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 (man, GRANDMOTHER), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 side	nmod:poss
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tall	punct
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 strong	cc
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tall	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gives	nsubj
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sits	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gives	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rose	det
17	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smiles	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 smiles	nsubj
20	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gives	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit	present		a young man		GRANDMOTHER's side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme at side=Location
2	give	present	man	a rose	GRANDMOTHER		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rose=Theme
3	smile	present	GRANDMOTHER				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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