Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 65

A woman not very young, with an unpleasant face and a quantity of black hair, followed them. "

Who acts: woman · What happens: follow · To what, where: sailors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 young	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 woman	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 face	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 face	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 face	det
9	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quantity	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quantity	det
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 face	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hair	case
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quantity	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
18	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 followed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	a woman and a unpleasant face and a quantity of black hair	sailors = sailor					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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