Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 27

The General shook his head thoughtfully, and went out for a ride, with his groom behind him at a proper distance, and he sat more stiffly than ever on his high horse.

Who acts: General · What happens: shake, go out, sit · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. 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	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	3 shook	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 ride	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ride	det
13	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 groom	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 groom	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 groom	nmod:poss
17	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 groom	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 distance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 distance	det
22	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sat	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sat	nsubj
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 stiffly	advmod
29	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	27 sat	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 ever	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 sat	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 horse	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 horse	nmod:poss
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 horse	amod
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the General	General's head	thoughtfully property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	go out	past			for a ride; with General's groom behind General; at a proper distance	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with groom=Co-Agent
3	sit	past	General		on General's high horse; stiffly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location

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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