Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 19

The daughters were tall, elegant, slender maidens.

Who acts: daughters · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughters	det
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 elegant	punct
6	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tall	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 maidens	punct
8	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 maidens	amod
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the daughters					slender maidens obl; tall property	tree rules
2	be		the daughters not said here						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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