Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 6

He is nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken stuff; it is impossible to say of what color, for it changes from green to red, and from red to blue as he turns from side to side.

Who acts: color, Oie · What happens: dress, make, be, say, change, turn · To what, where: Oie, coat, green, side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (color, Oie), 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 dressed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
3	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	4 dressed	advmod
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dressed	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 stuff	case
11	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stuff	amod
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 impossible	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 impossible	expl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 impossible	cop
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dressed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 impossible	csubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	ccomp
21	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 changes	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 changes	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 changes	nsubj
25	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 green	case
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 changes	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 red	case
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 changes	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 blue	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 blue	cc
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 red	case
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 blue	amod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 blue	case
35	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dressed	parataxis
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 turns	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 turns	nsubj
38	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 blue	advcl
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 side	case
40	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turns	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 side	case
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 side	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	present · passive		Oie		nicely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	make	present · passive		Oie's coat		of silken stuff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is	present				impossible property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	change	present	color		green	to red result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from green=Initial_State to red=Result
6	turn	present	Oie		side to side		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory

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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