Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 66
The General went as Rubens, in a Spanish costume, with a little ruff round his neck, a sword by his side, and a stately manner.
Who acts: General · What happens: go · To what, where: stately manner, Spanish costume
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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Rubens | case |
| 5 | Rubens | Rubens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 costume | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 costume | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 costume | det |
| 9 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 costume | amod |
| 10 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ruff | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ruff | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ruff | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ruff | amod |
| 15 | ruff | ruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruff | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sword | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sword | det |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruff | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sword | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 manner | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 manner | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 manner | det |
| 28 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 manner | amod |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the General | a stately manner | a Spanish costume | as Rubens; with a little ruff round Rubens's neck and a sword by Rubens's side | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ruff=Beneficiary |
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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