Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 49

She had a green linen apron thrown over her head and shoulders, and it was quite wet, as if it had been raining heavily. "

Who acts: grass, apron, it · What happens: have, throw, be, rain · To what, where: green linen apron, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, apron, it), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 apron	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apron	amod
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apron	compound
6	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 apron	acl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shoulders	cc
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 head	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wet	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wet	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wet	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wet	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 wet	advmod
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raining	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 raining	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 raining	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 raining	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 raining	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 raining	aux
25	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 wet	parataxis
26	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	25 raining	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 raining	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	grass	a green linen apron			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Patient
2	throw	participle		a green linen apron not said here	grass's head and shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over head=Destination
3	is	past	apron			wet property	tree rules
4	rain a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	it			heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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