Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 29
After this fashion was Anthony dressed on holidays and festivals, excepting that, instead of a high-crowned hat, he wore a kind of bonnet, and under it a knitted cap, a regular nightcap, to which he was so accustomed that it was always on his head; he had two, nightcaps I mean, not heads.
Who acts: Anthony, kind, I · What happens: dress, except, crown, wear, knit, accustom · To what, where: Anthony, holidays, that, kind, bonnet, head
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 (Anthony, kind, I), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 fashion | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fashion | det |
| 3 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 holidays | case |
| 8 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dressed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 festivals | cc |
| 10 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holidays | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 excepting | punct |
| 12 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dressed | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 excepting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hat | punct |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 21 hat | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hat | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crowned | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 high | punct |
| 20 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hat | amod |
| 21 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excepting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wore | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wore | nsubj |
| 24 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wore | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bonnet | case |
| 28 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 it | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 it | cc |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wore | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cap | det |
| 34 | knitted | knit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 cap | amod |
| 35 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 it | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 nightcap | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 nightcap | det |
| 38 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 nightcap | amod |
| 39 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cap | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 accustomed | punct |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 accustomed | obl |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 accustomed | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 accustomed | advmod |
| 46 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 cap | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 head | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 head | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 head | cop |
| 50 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 53 head | advmod |
| 51 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 head | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 head | nmod:poss |
| 53 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 accustomed | advcl |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 had | punct |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 had | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wore | conj |
| 57 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 had | obj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 nightcaps | punct |
| 59 | nightcaps | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 had | obj |
| 60 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 mean | nsubj |
| 61 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 nightcaps | acl:relcl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 heads | punct |
| 63 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 heads | advmod |
| 64 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 mean | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Anthony | holidays and festivals | after this fashion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | except | gerund | that | instead a crowned hat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | wear | past | Anthony | a kind of bonnet | bonnet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent kind=Source | |||
| 5 | knit | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | accustom | past · passive | Anthony | to a knitted cap | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | kind | Anthony's head | always property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | have | past | Anthony | two | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | I | heads | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
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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