Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 75

Then the soap-man tore off a small piece from the red lining of his old jacket, and cutting it so as to make it look like a cock's comb, he stuck it to the bird's head.

Who acts: soap man, word, piece · What happens: tear off, cut, make, look, stick · To what, where: small piece, piece

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soap man, word, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7416): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tore	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tore	det
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 soap	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 tore	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 piece	amod
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 lining	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lining	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lining	amod
14	lining	lining	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 jacket	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 jacket	nmod:poss
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 jacket	amod
18	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lining	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stuck	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stuck	cc
21	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 stuck	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cutting	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cutting	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 comb	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cock	det
31	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 comb	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 cock	case
33	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cutting	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stuck	nsubj
36	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tore	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stuck	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 head	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 head	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 bird	case
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stuck	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tear off	past	soap man	a small piece	then	from the red lining of word's old jacket	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient from lining=Co-Patient
2	cut	gerund	word not said here	piece			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	make	to-infinitive	word not said here	piece			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	piece not said here			like a cock's comb	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	stick	past	word	piece		to the bird's head	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to head=Co-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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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