Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 36

He wore gaiters, stiff collars, and powdered hair, and by this he was recognized; and, indeed, he might be known by the word of command--"March! halt! front!"

Who acts: career, word · What happens: wear, powder, recognize, know, word · To what, where: gaiters, hair, this, career, command

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (career, word), 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	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gaiters	gaiter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 collars	punct
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collars	amod
6	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gaiters	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 powdered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 powdered	cc
9	powdered	powder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wore	parataxis
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 powdered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recognized	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 recognized	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 this	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 recognized	nsubj:pass
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 recognized	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 recognized	aux:pass
17	recognized	recognize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 powdered	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 known	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 known	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 indeed	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 known	nsubj:pass
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 known	aux:pass
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wore	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 word	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 known	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 command	case
31	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 halt	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 March	punct
34	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 halt	compound
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 March	punct
36	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	conj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 front	punct
38	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nmod
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 front	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 front	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	career	gaiters and stiff collars		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gaiter=Source
2	powder	past		hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	recognize	past · passive		this		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	know	might · passive	the word of command front and March halt	career	indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
5	word			command		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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