Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 47
The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow, blooming as an Alpine rose, and as nimble-footed as a young kid.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, fall, bloom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 maiden | compound |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 maiden | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 maiden | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fresh | cop |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snow | amod |
| 13 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 snow | amod |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fresh | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blooming | punct |
| 16 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fresh | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 rose | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rose | det |
| 19 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rose | amod |
| 20 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blooming | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 footed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 footed | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 footed | mark |
| 24 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 footed | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 nimble | punct |
| 26 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fresh | parataxis |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 kid | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 kid | det |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kid | amod |
| 30 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 footed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the maiden on the mountain | as the new fallen snow; fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | the maiden on the mountain not said here | as a Alpine rose | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP 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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