Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 10
The snowflakes fell on her long, fair hair, which hung in curls on her shoulders, but she regarded them not.
Who acts: snowflakes, long fair hair, girl · What happens: fall, hang, not regard · To what, where: long fair hair, curls, snowflakes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowflakes, long fair hair, girl), 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 snowflakes | det |
| 2 | snowflakes | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hair | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 curls | case |
| 14 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hung | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoulders | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 regarded | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 regarded | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 regarded | nsubj |
| 21 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 regarded | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 regarded | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the snowflakes | girl's long fair hair | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hair=Location | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | girl's long fair hair | curls | on girl's shoulders | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in curl=Location | |||
| 3 | not regard | past | girl | snowflakes = snowflake | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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