Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 119
He had put on the emperor's golden crown, and held in one hand his sword of state, and in the other his beautiful banner.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: put, hold, crown · To what, where: golden crown, sword, one hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 crown | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crown | amod |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 held | cc |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hand | nummod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 state | case |
| 19 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sword | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 banner | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 banner | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 banner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 banner | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 banner | amod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 banner | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 banner | amod |
| 27 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect | emperor | the emperor's golden crown | in emperor's other beautiful banner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on crown=Destination | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | emperor not said here | emperor's sword of state | one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | crown | the emperor | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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