Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 9

And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front of the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, and his black-edged, three-cornered hat on his head, and then glanced at his round, jocund face, round as the sun, they could not think much of sorrow or the grave.

Who acts: I, people, father · What happens: own, see, perch up, dress, edge, corner · To what, where: edged cornered hat, father, front, long wide black cloak, much

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 (I, people, father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 own	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 own	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 own	aux
4	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 own	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saw	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 perched	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 omnibus	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 omnibus	det
18	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 front	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 omnibus	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saw	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	30 cloak	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cloak	nmod:poss
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cloak	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cloak	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wide	punct
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cloak	amod
30	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hat	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hat	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hat	nmod:poss
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 edged	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 black	punct
36	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hat	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hat	punct
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 cornered	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 three	punct
40	cornered	corner	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hat	amod
41	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 own	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 head	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 head	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hat	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 glanced	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 glanced	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 glanced	advmod
48	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 own	conj
49	at	at	ADP	_	54 face	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 face	nmod:poss
51	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 face	amod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 round	punct
53	jocund	jocund	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 face	amod
54	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 glanced	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 round	punct
56	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 face	amod
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 sun	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sun	det
59	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 round	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 think	punct
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 think	nsubj
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 think	aux
63	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 think	advmod
64	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 own	conj
65	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 think	obj
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 sorrow	case
67	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 much	nmod
68	or	or	CCONJ	_	70 grave	cc
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 grave	det
70	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 sorrow	conj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 own	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	future	I	truth's edged cornered hat on truth's head				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	see	past	people	my father				tree rules
3	perch up	participle	my father not said here		front of the omnibus of death			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
4	dress	participle	people not said here		truth's long wide black cloak			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	edge	participle						vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
6	corner	participle						tree rules
7	glance	past	I not said here			then	at truth's round jocund face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
8	not think speech: other	could	people	much of sorrow or the grave				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=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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