Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 24

She once cut off a long lock of her beautiful hair, and twisted it into a string for her bow. "

Who acts: Viking · What happens: cut off, twist · To what, where: long lock, lock, string

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (Viking), 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 cut	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 cut	advmod
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lock	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lock	amod
7	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hair	amod
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lock	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 twisted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twisted	cc
14	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 twisted	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 string	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 string	det
18	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twisted	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 bow	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bow	nmod:poss
21	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twisted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	Viking	a long lock of Viking's beautiful hair				once property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality
2	twist	past	Viking not said here	lock		a string		for Viking's bow	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into string=Trajectory

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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