Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 86

He had hardly uttered these hasty words when the skirts and sleeves of his coat folded themselves together into wings; the clothes became feathers, and the galoshes claws.

Who acts: botanist, skirts, clothes · What happens: utter, fold, become · To what, where: hasty words, skirts, wings, feathers

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (botanist, skirts, clothes), 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	4 uttered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 uttered	advmod
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
6	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 uttered	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 folded	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skirts	det
10	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 folded	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sleeves	cc
12	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 skirts	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 coat	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skirts	nmod
16	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	advcl
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 folded	obj
18	together	together	ADV	_	16 folded	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 wings	case
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 folded	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clothes	det
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	conj
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 became	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 claws	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 claws	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 galoshes	det
29	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 claws	compound
30	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 became	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past · perfect	botanist	this hasty words	hardly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	fold	past	the skirts of botanist's coat and sleeves	skirts = skirt	into wings result; together property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into wing=Result
3	become	past	the clothes	feathers	galoshes claws obl	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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