Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 45

She was very soon arrayed in costly robes of silk and muslin, and was the most beautiful creature in the palace; but she was dumb, and could neither speak nor sing.

Who acts: sun · What happens: array, be, speak, sing · To what, where: sun, costly robes, beautiful creature, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	5 arrayed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrayed	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 arrayed	advmod
5	arrayed	array	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 robes	case
7	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robes	amod
8	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arrayed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 silk	case
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robes	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 muslin	cc
12	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 silk	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 creature	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 creature	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 creature	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 creature	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 creature	amod
19	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrayed	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 creature	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dumb	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 dumb	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dumb	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dumb	cop
27	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrayed	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 speak	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 speak	cc
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	aux
31	neither	neither	ADV	_	32 speak	advmod
32	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 dumb	parataxis
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 sing	cc
34	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	array	past · passive		sun	costly robes of silk and muslin	soon property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the beautiful creature	the palace		tree rules
3	is	past	sun			dumb property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	could				neither property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	infinitive					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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