Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 26
On these occasions, they wore high-crowned, broad-brimmed hats, and sometimes a younger clerk would stick a feather in his.
Who acts: occasions, younger clerk · What happens: wear, crown, brim, stick · To what, where: brimmed hats, occasions, feather
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 (occasions, younger clerk), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasions | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 occasions | det |
| 3 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wore | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 occasions | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crowned | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 9 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wore | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hats | punct |
| 11 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brimmed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 broad | punct |
| 13 | brimmed | brim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hats | amod |
| 14 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wore | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stick | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stick | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 stick | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 clerk | det |
| 19 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 clerk | amod |
| 20 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stick | aux |
| 22 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wore | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 feather | det |
| 24 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 his | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 stick | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | occasions = occasion | brimmed hats | this occasions | tree rules | |||
| 2 | crown | participle | occasions = occasion not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | brim | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stick | would | a younger clerk | a feather | sometimes property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme his=Destination |
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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