Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 28

They generally stuck a table-knife and spoon in their girdles, as well as a larger knife, as a protection to themselves; and such a weapon was often very necessary.

Who acts: clerks, weapon · What happens: stick, be · To what, where: table knife, girdles

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 (clerks, weapon), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stuck	nsubj
2	generally	generally	ADV	_	3 stuck	advmod
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 table	punct
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoon	cc
9	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 girdles	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 girdles	nmod:poss
12	girdles	girdle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stuck	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knife	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 knife	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 knife	det
18	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 knife	amod
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 protection	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 protection	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 protection	det
23	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knife	appos
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 themselves	case
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 protection	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 necessary	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 necessary	cc
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 weapon	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 weapon	det
30	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 necessary	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 necessary	cop
32	often	often	ADV	_	34 necessary	advmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 necessary	advmod
34	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stuck	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	clerks = clerk	a table knife and spoon		clerks's girdles		a larger knife obl; generally property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in girdle=Destination
2	is	past	such weapon					necessary, often 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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