Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 35
He walked about in a coat embroidered all over, and in the drawing-rooms of society looked just like one of those rich pearl-embroidered bell-pulls, which are only made for show; and behind them always hangs a good thick cord for use.
Who acts: man, bell · What happens: walk, embroider, look, pull, make, hang · To what, where: coat, one, drawing rooms, good thick cord
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bell), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 coat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coat | det |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 coat | acl |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 over | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 embroidered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rooms | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rooms | det |
| 14 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rooms | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawing | punct |
| 16 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 society | case |
| 18 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rooms | nmod |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 looked | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 those | case |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pulls | advmod |
| 26 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 embroidered | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 pearl | punct |
| 28 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pulls | advcl |
| 29 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pulls | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 bell | punct |
| 31 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 those | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 made | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 made | aux:pass |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 made | advmod |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pulls | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 show | case |
| 38 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 hangs | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 hangs | cc |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 hangs | obl |
| 43 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 44 hangs | advmod |
| 44 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 cord | det |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 cord | amod |
| 47 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 cord | amod |
| 48 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hangs | obj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 use | case |
| 50 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 cord | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | man | a coat | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | a coat not said here | over property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | man not said here | one of those | the drawing rooms of society | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | |||
| 4 | embroider | participle | bell not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pull | present | bell | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make | present · passive | for show | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for show=Asset | |||||
| 7 | hang | present | man not said here | a good thick cord | behind rooms = room; for use; always property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cord=Theme behind they=Destination |
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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