Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 84

He had a cap with a long tassel on his head, and Russian boots with red tops on his feet.

Who acts: General · What happens: have · To what, where: cap

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 tassel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tassel	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tassel	amod
8	tassel	tassel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tassel	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boots	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 boots	cc
14	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boots	amod
15	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 tops	case
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tops	amod
18	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 boots	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tops	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	General	a cap				with a long tassel on General's head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient

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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