Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 54

How pretty she was! and such a singer! not a theatre singer, nor a ballad singer; no, but a singer of the woods; for she wandered through the gay green forest, and had a concert there for her own amusement.

Who acts: lady, singer · What happens: be, wander, have, amuse · To what, where: singer, gay green forest, concert

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, singer), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 pretty	advmod
2	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	9 singer	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 singer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singer	cop
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 singer	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 singer	cc
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 singer	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 singer	det
9	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singer	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 singer	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 singer	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 singer	det
13	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singer	compound
14	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 singer	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 singer	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 singer	det
18	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 singer	compound
19	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singer	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wandered	punct
21	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	32 wandered	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wandered	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 wandered	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 singer	det
25	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wandered	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 woods	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woods	det
28	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 singer	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wandered	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 wandered	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wandered	nsubj
32	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 singer	parataxis
33	through	through	ADP	_	37 forest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
35	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wandered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wandered	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 concert	det
42	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 had	advmod
44	for	for	ADP	_	47 amusement	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 amusement	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 amusement	amod
47	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 singer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lady	such singer		pretty property	tree rules
2	wander	past	a singer of the woods		the gay green forest		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
3	have	past	a singer of the woods not said here	a concert	there	for lady's own amusement	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concert=Patient
4	amuse		lady				nom amusement «feeling 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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