Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 29

However, he was not to be discouraged; he daubed his face over brown and black; pulled his cap over his ears, and knocked at the door.

Who acts: bird · What happens: not be, daub, pull, knock · To what, where: face, brown, cap, ears

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 discouraged	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 discouraged	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discouraged	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 discouraged	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 discouraged	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 discouraged	cop
8	discouraged	discouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 daubed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 daubed	nsubj
11	daubed	daub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discouraged	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daubed	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 brown	case
15	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daubed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 black	cc
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brown	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 pulled	punct
19	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discouraged	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cap	nmod:poss
21	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pulled	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 ears	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ears	nmod:poss
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pulled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knocked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knocked	cc
27	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pulled	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 discouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	bird			discouraged, however property	tree rules
2	daub	past	bird	bird's face	brown		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme over brown=Destination
3	pull	past		bird's cap	bird's ears		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
4	knock	past				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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