Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 57
He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth; his countenance was severe and grave; and in his hand he held a sword, broad and glittering.
Who acts: peace, wings, countenance · What happens: wear, have, reach, be, hold, glitter · To what, where: long white garments, wings, shoulders, sword, hand
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, wings, countenance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garments | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garments | amod |
| 6 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wore | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | conj |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wings | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 shoulders | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reached | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 severe | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 severe | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 severe | cop |
| 23 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grave | cc |
| 25 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 severe | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 held | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 held | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 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 | 32 held | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 held | nsubj |
| 32 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sword | det |
| 34 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 held | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 broad | punct |
| 36 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sword | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 glittering | cc |
| 38 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 broad | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | peace | long white garments | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | ||||
| 2 | have | past | peace | wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | wings | peace's shoulders | to the earth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | peace's countenance | severe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | peace's countenance not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | hold | past | peace | a sword | peace's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 7 | glitter | gerund | peace not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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