Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 41

The General was old and gray, but he had a good seat on horseback, and he knew it, and he rode out every day, with a groom behind him at a proper distance.

Who acts: General · What happens: be, have, know, ride out · To what, where: good seat, horseback, seat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gray	cc
6	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 seat	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seat	amod
13	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 horseback	case
15	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seat	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rode	nsubj
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 rode	compound:prt
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 groom	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 groom	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 groom	det
31	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 groom	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 distance	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 distance	det
36	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 distance	amod
37	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the General				old property	tree rules
2	be		the General not said here					tree rules
3	have	past	General	a good seat	horseback			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
4	know	past	General	seat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	ride out	past	General			day	with a groom behind man; at a proper distance	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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