Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 93

Palle Dyre had, after the example of Brockenhuus, caused an iron chain with a hunting-horn to be hung in his gateway; and when he came riding home, he used to seize the chain, and lift himself and his horse from the ground, and blow the horn.

Who acts: Palle · What happens: have, cause, hang, come, ride, use · To what, where: iron chain, gateway, chain, Palle, horn, Brockenhuus

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 (Palle), 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	Palle	Palle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Dyre	Dyre	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Palle	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 example	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 example	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 example	det
7	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Brockenhuus	case
9	Brockenhuus	Brockenhuus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 example	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caused	punct
11	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chain	det
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chain	compound
14	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caused	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 horn	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 horn	det
17	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 horn	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hunting	punct
19	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caused	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 hung	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 hung	aux:pass
22	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 horn	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 gateway	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gateway	nmod:poss
25	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 used	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 used	advcl
31	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 came	advcl
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 riding	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj
35	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 seize	mark
37	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 used	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chain	det
39	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seize	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lift	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lift	cc
42	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 lift	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 horse	cc
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 horse	nmod:poss
46	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 himself	conj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 ground	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ground	det
49	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 horse	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 blow	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 blow	cc
52	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 lift	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 horn	det
54	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 blow	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Palle			after the example of Brockenhuus		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cause	past		a iron chain			with a hunting horn	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition chain=Patient
3	hang	to-infinitive · passive			Brockenhuus's gateway			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: in gateway=Location
4	come	past	Palle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ride	gerund	Palle not said here				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	use	past	Palle					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	seize	to-infinitive	Palle not said here	the chain				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
8	lift	infinitive		Palle				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
9	blow	infinitive		the horn				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
10	exemplify			Brockenhuus				nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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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