Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 51

All the rags were made into white paper, and the shirt collar became the very identical piece of paper which we now see, and on which this story is printed.

Who acts: shirt collar, we · What happens: make, become, see, print · To what, where: rags, white paper, identical piece, story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt collar, we), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rags	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rags	det
3	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 paper	case
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paper	amod
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 collar	det
12	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 collar	compound
13	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 piece	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 identical	advmod
17	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 piece	amod
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 paper	case
20	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 see	obj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 see	advmod
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 piece	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 printed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 printed	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 printed	obl
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 story	det
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 printed	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 printed	aux:pass
32	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 became	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past · passive		all rags	white paper		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into paper=Product
2	become	past	the shirt collar	the identical piece of paper			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	see	present	we	the identical piece of paper		now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4	print	present · passive		this story			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=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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