Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 165
The person in question was wrapped in a great cloak, and wore a kind of hood.
What happens: wrap, wear · To what, where: person, great cloak, kind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 question | case |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 person | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 6 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cloak | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cloak | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cloak | amod |
| 10 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wore | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wore | cc |
| 13 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrapped | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hood | case |
| 17 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | the person in question | a great cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cloak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | a kind of hood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent kind=Source |
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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