Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 23

This same horse stood in the courtyard, and had four poles for legs, and a single narrow plant for a back; on this Jon had to ride astride, and some heavy bricks were fastened to his feet into the bargain, that he might not sit too comfortably.

Who acts: same horse, Jon · What happens: stand, have, ride, fasten, not sit · To what, where: courtyard, four poles, heavy bricks, bargain

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: who acts (same horse, Jon), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 horse	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 courtyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 poles	nummod
12	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 legs	case
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 poles	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plant	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plant	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 plant	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plant	amod
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plant	amod
20	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 back	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plant	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 Jon	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 Jon	det
27	Jon	Jon	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ride	mark
30	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	astride	astride	ADV	_	30 ride	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fastened	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fastened	cc
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 bricks	det
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bricks	amod
36	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fastened	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fastened	aux:pass
38	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 feet	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 feet	nmod:poss
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fastened	obl
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 bargain	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bargain	det
44	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fastened	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sit	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 sit	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sit	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 sit	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 sit	advmod
50	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 fastened	conj
51	too	too	ADV	_	52 comfortably	advmod
52	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	50 sit	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	this same horse		the courtyard		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location
2	have	past	this same horse not said here	four poles		for legs; a single narrow plant for a back obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
3	have	past	this Jon				tree rules
4	ride	to-infinitive	this Jon not said here			astride property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	fasten	past · passive		some heavy bricks	the bargain	to Jon's feet	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient
6	not sit	might	Jon			comfortably property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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