Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 1

In the old days, when grandpapa was quite a little boy, and ran about in little red breeches and a red coat, and a feather in his cap--for that's the costume the little boys wore in his time when they were dressed in their best--many things were very different from what they are now.

Who acts: grandpapa, little boy, that, little boys, many things, things · What happens: be, run about, wear, dress · To what, where: little boy, little red breeches, feather, best

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandpapa, little boy, that, little boys), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 boy	mark
7	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boy	cop
9	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	12 boy	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boy	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 breeches	case
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breeches	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breeches	amod
20	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ran	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 coat	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coat	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coat	amod
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breeches	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feather	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feather	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 feather	det
28	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 cap	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cap	nmod:poss
31	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feather	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 costume	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 costume	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 costume	nsubj
35	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 costume	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 costume	det
37	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feather	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boys	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 boys	amod
40	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 wore	nsubj
41	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 costume	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 time	nmod:poss
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wore	obl
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 dressed	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 dressed	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 dressed	aux:pass
48	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 wore	advcl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 best	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 best	nmod:poss
51	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 dressed	obl
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	57 different	punct
53	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 things	amod
54	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 different	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 different	cop
56	very	very	ADV	_	57 different	advmod
57	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feather	parataxis
58	from	from	ADP	_	59 what	case
59	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 different	obl
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 now	nsubj
61	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 now	cop
62	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 what	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	grandpapa	quite little boy				tree rules
2	run about	past	quite little boy not said here		little red breeches and a red coat		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breech=Trajectory
3	is	present	that				for the costume	tree rules
4	wear	past	the little boys			time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	dress	past · passive		feather	feather's best			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is	past	many things		a feather in boy's cap and the costume		different property	tree rules
7	is	present	things = thing				now property	tree rules

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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