Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 75

If so, I can do it”; and then he rattled a whole bunch of valuable seals that hung to his watch, and he stuck his hand in the thick gold chain he wore around his neck--nay! how all his fingers glittered with diamond rings; and then all were pure gems.

Who acts: I, thing, valuable seals, fingers · What happens: do, rattle, hang, stick, wear, glitter · To what, where: freedom, whole bunch, hand, thick gold chain, neck, pure gems · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thing, valuable seals, fingers), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 so	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	13 rattled	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 so	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rattled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rattled	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 rattled	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rattled	nsubj
13	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bunch	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bunch	amod
16	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rattled	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 seals	case
18	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seals	amod
19	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bunch	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hung	nsubj
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seals	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 watch	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 watch	nmod:poss
24	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stuck	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stuck	nsubj
28	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rattled	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 chain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chain	det
33	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 chain	amod
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 chain	compound
35	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wore	nsubj
37	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 chain	acl:relcl
38	around	around	ADP	_	40 neck	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neck	nmod:poss
40	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wore	obl
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 nay	punct
42	nay	nay	INTJ	_	28 stuck	discourse
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 nay	punct
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 glittered	advmod
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 fingers	det:predet
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 fingers	nmod:poss
47	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 glittered	nsubj
48	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stuck	advcl
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 rings	case
50	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rings	compound
51	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 glittered	obl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 gems	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 gems	cc
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 gems	advmod
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 gems	det
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 gems	cop
57	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 gems	amod
58	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rattled	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	I	freedom				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	rattle in a quote	past	thing	a whole bunch of valuable seals		then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme
3	hang in a quote	past	valuable seals				to thing's watch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stick in a quote	past	thing	thing's hand	the thick gold chain			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in chain=Destination
5	wear in a quote	past	thing	the thick gold chain not said here	thing's neck			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source
6	glitter in a quote	past	thing's fingers				with diamond rings	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ring=Theme
7	is a in a quote	past		all pure gems		then		tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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