Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 68
Jens Glob stands so deeply wrapped in thought, that he singes the skirt of his wide garment.
Who acts: Jens, weather · What happens: stand, wrap, singe · To what, where: thought, skirt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jens, weather), 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 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | Glob | Glob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jens | flat |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wrapped | advmod |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 6 wrapped | advmod |
| 6 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stands | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 singes | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 singes | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 singes | nsubj |
| 12 | singes | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stands | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skirt | det |
| 14 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 singes | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 garment | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 garment | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 garment | amod |
| 18 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skirt | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Jens | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | Jens not said here | thought | deeply property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in thought=Destination | |||
| 3 | singe | present | weather | the skirt of weather's wide garment | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skirt=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: «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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