Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 29
His sealskin cap was drawn over his ears, long icicles hung from his beard, and one hailstone after another rolled from the collar of his jacket.
What happens: draw, hang, roll · To what, where: sealskin cap, ears, long icicles, beard, one hailstone, collar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cap | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cap | compound |
| 3 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux:pass |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drawn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 icicles | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 icicles | amod |
| 11 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ears | conj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 icicles | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 beard | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beard | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rolled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rolled | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hailstone | nummod |
| 19 | hailstone | hailstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 another | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 hailstone | nmod |
| 22 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drawn | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 collar | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 collar | det |
| 25 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 jacket | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 28 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 collar | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | king's sealskin cap | king's ears and long icicles | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | participle | long icicles not said here | king's beard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | roll | participle · passive | one hailstone after another | the collar of king's jacket | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from collar=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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