Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 76

The family had the Chinaman's back mended, and a strong rivet put through his neck; he looked as good as new, but he could no longer nod his head.

Who acts: family, back, strong rivet · What happens: have, mend, put, look, nod · To what, where: neck, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, back, strong rivet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Chinaman	det
5	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Chinaman	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mended	nsubj
8	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rivet	det
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rivet	amod
13	rivet	rivet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mended	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 neck	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 good	advmod
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looked	xcomp
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 new	case
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 good	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 nod	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 nod	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 nod	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 nod	aux
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 nod	advmod
31	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 looked	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nod	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the family				tree rules
2	mend	past	the Chinaman's back				tree rules
3	put	participle	a strong rivet		family's neck		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through neck=Destination
4	look	past	family			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	nod	could	family	family's head		long property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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