Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 193

You perceive he is not so bad as they represent him in picture books; there he is a skeleton, but now his coat is embroidered with silver, and he wears the splendid uniform of a hussar, and a mantle of black velvet flies behind him, over the horse.

Who acts: You, Ole, Romans, mantle · What happens: perceive, not be, represent, be, embroider, wear · To what, where: Ole, skeleton, coat, splendid uniform

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Ole, Romans, mantle), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 perceive	nsubj
2	perceive	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bad	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 perceive	ccomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 represent	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 represent	nsubj
10	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 represent	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 books	case
13	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 books	compound
14	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 represent	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 skeleton	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 he	expl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 skeleton	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 skeleton	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 skeleton	det
20	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceive	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 embroidered	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 embroidered	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 embroidered	advmod
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 coat	nmod:poss
25	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 embroidered	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 embroidered	aux:pass
27	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perceive	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 silver	case
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 embroidered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wears	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wears	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wears	nsubj
33	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 perceive	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 uniform	det
35	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 uniform	amod
36	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wears	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 hussar	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hussar	det
39	hussar	hussar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 uniform	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 flies	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 flies	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mantle	det
43	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 flies	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 velvet	case
45	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 velvet	amod
46	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mantle	nmod
47	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wears	conj
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 flies	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 horse	punct
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 horse	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 horse	det
53	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 flies	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	present	You				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	present	Ole			bad property	tree rules
3	represent	present	Romans = roman	Ole		in picture books	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in book=Attribute
4	is a	present	Ole	a skeleton			tree rules
5	embroider	present · passive		Ole's coat	now	with silver	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with silver=Theme
6	wear	present	Ole	the splendid uniform of a hussar			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme
7	fly	present	a mantle of black velvet			behind Ole; over the horse	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location

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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