Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 31

He was as thin as a lath, wrinkled round the mouth and eyes, had long, bony fingers, bushy, gray eyebrows, and over his left eye hung a thick tuft of hair, which did not look handsome, but made his appearance very remarkable.

Who acts: Anthony, thick tuft · What happens: be, wrinkle, have, hang, not look, make · To what, where: long bony fingers, thick tuft, left eye, appearance

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, thick tuft), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 thin	advmod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 lath	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lath	det
7	lath	lath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrinkled	punct
9	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thin	conj
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouth	det
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrinkled	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eyes	cc
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mouth	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	parataxis
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fingers	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
19	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fingers	amod
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bushy	punct
22	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fingers	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eyebrows	punct
24	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyebrows	amod
25	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fingers	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hung	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hung	cc
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 eye	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eye	nmod:poss
30	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 eye	amod
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hung	obl
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tuft	det
34	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tuft	amod
35	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hung	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 hair	case
37	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tuft	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 look	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 look	nsubj
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 look	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 look	advmod
42	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tuft	parataxis
43	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 look	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 made	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 made	cc
46	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hung	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 appearance	nmod:poss
48	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 made	obj
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 remarkable	advmod
50	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 made	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Anthony			as a lath; thin property	tree rules
2	wrinkle	participle	Anthony not said here			round the mouth and eyes	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	past		long bony fingers and gray eyebrows			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
4	hang	past		a thick tuft of hair	Anthony's left eye		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tuft=Theme over eye=Destination
5	not look	past · do-support	a thick tuft of hair			handsome property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	make	past		Anthony's appearance		remarkable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product

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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