Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 27
The woollen shirt was concealed by a broad, linen collar; the close jacket was buttoned up to the chin, and the cloak hung loosely over it; the trousers were tucked into the broad, tipped shoes, for the clerks wore no stockings.
Who acts: cloak, clerks · What happens: conceal, button up, hang, tuck, tip, wear · To what, where: woollen shirt, close jacket, jacket, trousers, broad tipped shoes, stockings
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 (cloak, clerks), 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 | 3 shirt | det |
| 2 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shirt | amod |
| 3 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 concealed | aux:pass |
| 5 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 collar | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 collar | det |
| 8 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 collar | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 broad | punct |
| 10 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 collar | amod |
| 11 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 buttoned | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jacket | det |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jacket | amod |
| 15 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buttoned | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 buttoned | aux:pass |
| 17 | buttoned | button | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concealed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 buttoned | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 chin | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chin | det |
| 21 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buttoned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hung | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hung | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cloak | det |
| 25 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hung | nsubj |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 concealed | parataxis |
| 27 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 26 hung | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hung | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 tucked | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trousers | det |
| 32 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tucked | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tucked | aux:pass |
| 34 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concealed | parataxis |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 shoes | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 shoes | det |
| 37 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 shoes | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tipped | punct |
| 39 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 shoes | amod |
| 40 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tucked | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wore | punct |
| 42 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 wore | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 clerks | det |
| 44 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wore | nsubj |
| 45 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tucked | conj |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 stockings | det |
| 47 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wore | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past · passive | the woollen shirt | by a broad linen collar | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient by collar=Location | ||||
| 2 | button up | past · passive | the close jacket | to the chin | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to chin=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the cloak | jacket | loosely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | |||
| 4 | tuck | past · passive | the trousers | the broad tipped shoes | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into shoe=Destination | ||||
| 5 | tip | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | wear | past | the clerks | no stockings | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stocking=Theme |
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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