Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 228
To every one who afterwards put this cap on his head, came visions and dreams which agitated him not a little.
Who acts: visions · What happens: put, come, not agitate · To what, where: cap, one, head, visions, Anthony
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 (visions), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 put | nsubj |
| 5 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cap | det |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | parataxis |
| 14 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dreams | cc |
| 16 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 visions | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 agitated | nsubj |
| 18 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 visions | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 agitated | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 agitated | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 little | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 agitated | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | this cap | every one | Anthony's head | afterwards property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme on head=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | past | visions and dreams | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vision=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not agitate | past | visions and dreams | Anthony | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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