Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 19

An old man lived in it, who wore knee-breeches, a coat with large brass buttons, and a wig, which any one could see was a real wig.

Who acts: old man, one, wig · What happens: live, wear, see, be · To what, where: street, knee breeches, wig, real wig

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, one, wig), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wore	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wore	nsubj
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breeches	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 knee	punct
12	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wore	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coat	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coat	det
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 buttons	case
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 buttons	amod
18	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buttons	compound
19	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coat	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wig	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wig	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wig	det
23	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wig	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 see	obj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wig	acl:relcl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wig	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wig	det
32	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wig	amod
33	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a old man		street		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
2	wear	past		knee breeches		a coat with large brass buttons obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breech=Source
3	see	could	any one	a wig			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4	is a	past	a wig	a real wig			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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