Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 7
Then the branch was broken off for her, and she held it in her delicate hand, and sheltered it with her silk parasol.
Who acts: knowledge · What happens: break off, hold, shelter · To what, where: branch, tale, delicate hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 broken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branch | det |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 broken | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 broken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 held | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | nsubj |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sheltered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sheltered | cc |
| 20 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sheltered | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 parasol | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parasol | nmod:poss |
| 24 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parasol | compound |
| 25 | parasol | parasol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sheltered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past · passive | the branch | then | for knowledge | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | past | knowledge | tale | knowledge's delicate hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | shelter | past | knowledge not said here | tale | with knowledge's silk parasol | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme with parasol=Location |
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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