Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 7

He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course, furnished with teeth.

Who acts: Man · What happens: have, make, break, furnish · To what, where: two triangular pieces, head, mouth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pieces	nummod
4	triangular	triangular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pieces	amod
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tile	case
7	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyes	punct
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 eyes	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 rake	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rake	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rake	amod
23	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 rake	amod
24	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 furnished	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 furnished	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 furnished	aux:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 furnished	punct
29	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	32 furnished	advmod
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 of	fixed
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 furnished	punct
32	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 made	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 teeth	case
34	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 furnished	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Man	two triangular pieces of tile	Man's head	instead eyes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	make	past · passive		Man's mouth		of a old broken rake	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	furnish	past · passive				with teeth	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with tooth=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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