Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 25
He painted his face, put on common clothes, pulled his cap over his forehead, and came back.
Who acts: Superbe · What happens: paint, put, pull, come back · To what, where: face, common clothes, cap, forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Superbe), 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 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 painted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 painted | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 painted | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cap | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 painted | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Superbe | Superbe's face | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Superbe not said here | common clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | Superbe not said here | Superbe's cap | Superbe's forehead | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | |||
| 4 | come back | past | Superbe not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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