Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 5

The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose, as she sat on her stool under the straggling hedge, hugging and caressing her doll with the battered pasteboard cheeks.

Who acts: little daughter, daughter · What happens: appear, sit, hug, caress, batter · To what, where: lovelier rose, me, stool, doll

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clergyman	det
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 clergyman	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 appeared	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rose	det
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lovelier	advmod
11	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 rose	amod
12	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 sat	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stool	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stool	nmod:poss
19	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 hedge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hedge	det
22	straggling	straggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hedge	compound
23	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hugging	punct
25	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sat	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 caressing	cc
27	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 hugging	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 doll	nmod:poss
29	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caressing	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 cheeks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cheeks	det
32	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 cheeks	amod
33	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cheeks	compound
34	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 caressing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the clergyman's little daughter	a lovelier rose	me			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme
2	sit	past	daughter			daughter's stool	under the straggling hedge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
3	hug	gerund	daughter not said here					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	caress	gerund	daughter not said here	daughter's doll			with the battered pasteboard cheeks	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent doll=Theme with cheek=Instrument
5	batter	participle						vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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