Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 120
The black dress suited mamma very well, and she wore mourning the longest.
Who acts: black dress · What happens: suit, wear, mourn · To what, where: mamma, longest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black dress), 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 | 3 dress | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dress | amod |
| 3 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dress | acl |
| 5 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suited | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 suited | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wore | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wore | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 longest | det |
| 14 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 mourning | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | participle | the black dress not said here | mamma | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | past | the black dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mourn | gerund | the black dress not said here | the longest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer long=Stimulus |
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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