Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 40
They all wore helmets on their heads, and carried spears and shields.
Who acts: shapes · What happens: wear, carry · To what, where: helmets, heads, spears
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shapes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wore | advmod |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wore | conj |
| 11 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shields | cc |
| 13 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spears | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | shapes = shape | helmets | shapes's heads | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | shapes = shape not said here | spears and shields | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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