Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 8

In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes made of all kinds of colored patches artfully sewn together, with a black face, and bells on his head like a sledge horse.

What happens: run, dress, make, sew, bell · To what, where: Harlequin, front, clothes, colored patches, head

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: 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	_	2 front	case
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 procession	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 procession	det
5	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 front	nmod
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Harlequin	det
8	Harlequin	Harlequin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dressed	punct
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Harlequin	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 clothes	case
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 dressed	obl
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 clothes	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 kinds	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 kinds	det
16	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 patches	case
18	colored	colored	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 patches	compound
19	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kinds	nmod
20	artfully	artfully	ADV	_	21 sewn	advmod
21	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 patches	acl
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 sewn	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 face	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 face	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 face	det
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 face	amod
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sewn	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bells	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bells	cc
30	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bells	obl
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 horse	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 horse	det
36	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horse	compound
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bells	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the Harlequin	front of the procession		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent harlequin=Theme in front=Trajectory
2	dress	participle	the Harlequin not said here	clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	participle	clothes not said here		of all kinds of colored patches	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	sew	participle	colored patches not said here		with a black face; artfully, together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with face=Co-Patient
5	bell	present		stick's head	like a sledge horse	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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