Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 6

The eldest of the company--the water gourd hung at his girdle, and on his head was a little bag of unleavened bread--drew a square in the sand with his staff, and wrote in it a few words out of the Koran, and then the whole caravan passed over the consecrated spot.

Who acts: eldest · What happens: hang, be, draw, write, pass, consecrate · To what, where: whole caravan, girdle, little bag, head, square, sand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 hung	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 company	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eldest	nmod
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 hung	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gourd	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gourd	compound
9	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	nsubj
10	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 girdle	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 girdle	nmod:poss
13	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bag	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bag	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bag	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bag	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bag	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bag	amod
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
24	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bread	amod
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bag	nmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 drew	punct
27	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hung	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 square	det
29	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drew	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 sand	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sand	det
32	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drew	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 staff	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 staff	nmod:poss
35	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sand	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wrote	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wrote	cc
38	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hung	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wrote	obl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 words	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 words	amod
43	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wrote	obj
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 Koran	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Koran	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Koran	det
47	Koran	Koran	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 words	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 caravan	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 caravan	cc
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 caravan	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 caravan	det
52	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 caravan	amod
53	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
54	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 caravan	acl
55	over	over	ADP	_	58 spot	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 spot	det
57	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 spot	amod
58	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 passed	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the eldest of the company	the whole caravan	halt's girdle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at girdle=Location
2	is a	past		a little bag	halt's head	of unleavened bread	tree rules
3	draw	past	the eldest of the company not said here	a square	the sand with halt's staff		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent square=Theme in sand=Destination
4	write	past	the eldest of the company not said here	a few words	sand	out the Koran	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in it=Destination
5	pass	participle		the whole caravan not said here	the consecrated spot		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over spot=Location
6	consecrate	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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