Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 31

A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.

Who acts: knight, Tuk, that · What happens: gleam, dress, hold, ride, be · To what, where: knight, many, wood, large town

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, Tuk, that), 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 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 plume	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plume	det
5	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 plume	amod
6	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knight	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dressed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dressed	cc
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 magnificently	advmod
10	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	11 dressed	advmod
11	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knight	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knight	punct
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	obj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 horse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 rode	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rode	nsubj
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 held	conj
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 town	amod
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Bordingborg	case
33	Bordingborg	Bordingborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 town	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 town	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 town	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 town	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 town	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 town	det
39	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 town	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lively	cc
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 lively	advmod
42	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 large	conj
43	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress	participle		a knight with a gleaming plume not said here			magnificently property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	past	a knight with a gleaming plume	many		before many	on the horse	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme before he=Location
4	ride	past	Tuk		the wood		to the old town of Bordingborg; thus property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
5	is a	past	that	a large town				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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