Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 63
He came in, looking like a wild man, and he wore a slouched hat to protect his head from injury.
Who acts: Zephyr · What happens: come in, look, wear, slouch, protect · To what, where: slouched hat, head
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: who acts (Zephyr), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wore | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wore | nsubj |
| 13 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hat | det |
| 15 | slouched | slouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hat | amod |
| 16 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 protect | mark |
| 18 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wore | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 protect | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 injury | case |
| 22 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 protect | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Zephyr | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Zephyr not said here | like a wild man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | Zephyr | a slouched hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slouch | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | Zephyr not said here | Zephyr's head | from injury | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Beneficiary from injury=Theme |
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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