Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 102
She looked as elegant as a real lady, and wore a pretty dress, beautifully made on purpose for her.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: look, wear, make · To what, where: pretty dress, purpose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 elegant | advmod |
| 4 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elegant | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wore | cc |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dress | det |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dress | amod |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wore | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wore | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | carriage | elegant property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | a pretty dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | purpose | for carriage; beautifully property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary |
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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