Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 220

The first who wore old Anthony's cap felt the truth of this, though it was half a century afterwards.

Who acts: first, cap · What happens: wear, feel, be · To what, where: truth, century

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, cap), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wore	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Anthony	amod
6	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cap	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Anthony	case
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wore	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 truth	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 century	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 century	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 century	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 century	cop
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 century	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 century	det
20	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	advcl
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	20 century	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the first			tree rules
2	feel	past	old Anthony's cap	the truth of this		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
3	is a	past	cap	half century	afterwards property	tree rules

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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