Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 44

So Anthony invented employment; he mended his clothes and patched his boots, and when he at last went to bed,--his nightcap, which he had worn from habit, still remained on his head; he had only to pull it down a little farther over his forehead.

Who acts: Anthony, last · What happens: invent, mend, patch, go, wear, remain · To what, where: employment, clothes, boots, nightcap, bed, habit

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, last), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 invented	advmod
2	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invented	nsubj
3	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 mended	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mended	nsubj
7	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 clothes	nmod:poss
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 mended	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 patched	cc
11	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mended	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boots	nmod:poss
13	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 patched	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 last	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 last	nsubj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 bed	case
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nightcap	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 nightcap	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nightcap	nmod:poss
26	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 worn	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 worn	nsubj:pass
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 worn	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 worn	aux
31	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 nightcap	acl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 habit	case
33	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 worn	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 remained	punct
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 remained	advmod
36	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 habit	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 head	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 remained	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	conj
43	only	only	ADV	_	45 pull	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 pull	mark
45	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 had	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pull	obj
47	down	down	ADP	_	45 pull	compound:prt
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 little	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 farther	obl
50	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 pull	advmod
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 forehead	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 forehead	nmod:poss
53	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pull	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	Anthony	employment				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Result
2	mend	past	Anthony	Anthony's clothes				tree rules
3	patch	past	Anthony not said here	Anthony's boots				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boot=Destination
4	go	past	last	Anthony's nightcap	bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	wear	past · perfect · passive		Anthony's nightcap	habit			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from habit=Source
6	remain	participle		habit not said here	Anthony's head	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
7	have	past	Anthony					tree rules
8	pull down	to-infinitive	Anthony not said here	employment	Anthony's forehead		far property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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