Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 96

It was a large oil-skin cap, which a sailor-boy of the quay had thrown over the struggling bird; a coarse hand sought its way carefully in under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the back and wings.

Who acts: object, coarse hand · What happens: be, throw, seek, seize · To what, where: large skin cap, sailor boy, way, broad rim, clerk, back

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 (object, coarse hand), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cap	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cap	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cap	amod
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 oil	punct
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cap	compound
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thrown	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 thrown	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
12	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boy	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sailor	punct
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thrown	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 quay	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quay	det
17	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boy	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thrown	aux
19	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cap	parataxis
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 bird	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bird	det
22	struggling	struggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bird	compound
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thrown	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sought	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hand	det
26	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hand	amod
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	nsubj
28	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thrown	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	obj
31	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	28 sought	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 rim	case
33	under	under	ADP	_	36 rim	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rim	det
35	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rim	amod
36	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seized	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 seized	cc
39	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sought	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 clerk	det
41	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seized	obj
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 back	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 back	det
44	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seized	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wings	cc
46	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 back	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	object	a large skin cap			tree rules
2	throw	past · perfect · passive		a sailor boy of the quay		over the struggling bird	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=Theme
3	seek	past	a coarse hand	object's way	the broad rim	carefully property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme in rim=Location
4	seize	past	a coarse hand not said here	the clerk	the back and wings		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=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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