Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 25
She had taken off her golden crown, and through the long, dreary night, she carried her sick child in her arms.
Who acts: queen · What happens: take off, carry, crown · To what, where: golden crown, sick child, arms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 crown | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | amod |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 night | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 child | amod |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 arms | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · perfect | queen | queen's golden crown | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | queen | queen's sick child | queen's arms | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location | ||
| 3 | crown | queen | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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