Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 62

And as he spoke he rattled between his fingers a number of costly trinkets which hung to a thick gold watch-chain he wore round his neck.

Who acts: stranger, costly trinkets · What happens: speak, rattle, hang, wear · To what, where: number, thick watch chain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, costly trinkets), 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	_	6 rattled	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rattled	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rattled	nsubj
6	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fingers	nmod:poss
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rattled	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rattled	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 trinkets	case
13	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trinkets	amod
14	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trinkets	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	23 chain	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chain	det
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chain	amod
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chain	nsubj
21	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chain	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 chain	punct
23	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wore	nsubj
25	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 chain	acl:relcl
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 neck	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neck	nmod:poss
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wore	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	stranger			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rattle	past	stranger	a number of costly trinkets	between stranger's fingers	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent number=Theme
3	hang	past	costly trinkets		to a thick watch chain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wear	past	stranger	a thick watch chain not said here	round stranger's neck	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source

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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