Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 51
She wore a summer dress and overshoes; her dress was a light green, and she wore anemones in her hair.
Who acts: lady, dress · What happens: wear, be · To what, where: summer dress, anemones, hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, dress), 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 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dress | det |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dress | compound |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 overshoes | cc |
| 7 | overshoes | overshoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dress | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 green | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 green | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 green | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 green | det |
| 13 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 green | amod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wore | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wore | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wore | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wore | nsubj |
| 18 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 19 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wore | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wore | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | lady | a summer dress and overshoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lady's dress | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | lady | anemones | lady's hair | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent anemone=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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