Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 11

She was a very wise woman, and exceedingly proud of her high birth; on that account she wore twelve oysters on her tail; while others, also of high rank, were only allowed to wear six.

Who acts: mother, others · What happens: be, wear, allow · To what, where: wise woman, twelve oysters, account, others, six

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, others), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wise	advmod
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proud	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 proud	cc
9	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	10 proud	advmod
10	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 birth	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 birth	nmod:poss
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birth	amod
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proud	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wore	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 account	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 account	det
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wore	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wore	nsubj
20	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	parataxis
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 oysters	nummod
22	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wore	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 tail	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tail	nmod:poss
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 oysters	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 allowed	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 allowed	mark
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 allowed	nsubj:pass
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rank	punct
30	also	also	ADV	_	33 rank	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 rank	case
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rank	amod
33	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 others	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rank	punct
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 allowed	aux:pass
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 allowed	advmod
37	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wore	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 wear	mark
39	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 allowed	xcomp
40	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 wear	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mother	a wise woman			tree rules
2	wear	past	mother	twelve oysters	that account	on mother's tail	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent oyster=Source
3	allow	past · passive		others			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	wear not said to happen	to-infinitive	others not said here	six			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent six=Source

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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