Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 62

Mr. de Boots is water-tight, of strong leather, and yet very delicate; he can creak, and clank with his spurs, and has an Italian physiognomy-'"

Who acts: Mr de Boots, MR. · What happens: be, creak, have, spur · To what, where: clank, Italian physiognomy '

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr de Boots, MR.), 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	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Boots	compound
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mr	punct
3	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Boots	compound
4	Boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tight	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tight	cop
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tight	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leather	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leather	case
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 leather	amod
12	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tight	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delicate	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 delicate	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 delicate	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 delicate	advmod
17	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tight	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 creak	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 creak	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 creak	aux
21	creak	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 delicate	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 clank	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clank	cc
24	clank	clank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 creak	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 spurs	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spurs	nmod:poss
27	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 clank	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 has	cc
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 creak	conj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 '	det
32	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 '	amod
33	physiognomy	physiognomy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 '	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 physiognomy	punct
35	'	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 '	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr de Boots			of strong leather; tight property	tree rules
2	be		Mr de Boots not said here		yet		tree rules
3	creak	can	MR.	clank		with MR.'s spurs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clank=Theme
4	have	present	MR. not said here	a Italian physiognomy '			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent '=Patient
5	spur		MR.				nom spur «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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