Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 35

He came twice a year in a cart, painted red with blue and white tulips upon it, and full of eels; it was covered and locked like a box, two dun oxen drew it, and Jurgen was allowed to guide them.

Who acts: Jurgen, two dun oxen · What happens: come, paint, cover, lock, draw, allow · To what, where: cart, Jurgen, oxen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, two dun oxen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 came	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cart	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cart	det
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 painted	punct
10	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cart	acl
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painted	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 tulips	case
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tulips	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 white	cc
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blue	conj
16	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 red	obl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tulips	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 full	cc
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 eels	case
23	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 covered	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 covered	aux:pass
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 locked	cc
29	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 covered	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 box	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 box	det
32	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 locked	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drew	punct
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 oxen	nummod
35	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 oxen	compound
36	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 drew	nsubj
37	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 locked	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drew	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 allowed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 allowed	cc
41	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 allowed	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 allowed	aux:pass
43	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 drew	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 guide	mark
45	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 allowed	xcomp
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 guide	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Jurgen		a cart	year	twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cart=Location
2	paint	participle		a cart not said here			red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cover	past · passive		cart				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	lock	participle					like a box	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	draw	past	two dun oxen	cart				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	allow	past · passive		Jurgen				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	guide not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here	oxen = ox				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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