Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 45
The fox's skin, the honorable sign of the furrier, was found fastened to the bell-pull of a young man who always went to early lecture, and looked like a furled umbrella.
Who acts: skin, young man · What happens: find, fasten, go, look, furl, sign · To what, where: skin, early lecture, furrier, young man
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 (skin, young 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 fox | case |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sign | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 7 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sign | amod |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 furrier | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 furrier | det |
| 11 | furrier | furrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skin | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pull | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pull | det |
| 18 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pull | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bell | punct |
| 20 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pull | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 went | nsubj |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 went | advmod |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 lecture | case |
| 29 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lecture | amod |
| 30 | lecture | lecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 looked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 looked | cc |
| 33 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 umbrella | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 umbrella | det |
| 36 | furled | furl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 umbrella | amod |
| 37 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looked | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | the fox's skin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | the fox's skin not said here | to the bell pull of a young man | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to pull=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a young man | early lecture | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lecture=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | look | past | like a furled umbrella | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | furl | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | sign | the furrier | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | pull | a young man | nom pull «act transitive»: of=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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