Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 51

He brushed his shoes and his coat, washed his face and his hands, combed his soft flaxen hair, and then went out alone into the town, and walked to the palace.

Who acts: face · What happens: brush, wash, comb, go out, walk · To what, where: shoes, face, soft flaxen hair, town

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 brushed	nsubj
2	brushed	brush	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 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brushed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 coat	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoes	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 washed	punct
9	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brushed	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hands	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 face	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 combed	punct
16	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 washed	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hair	nmod:poss
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
19	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 combed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 went	advmod
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brushed	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 town	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 town	det
29	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 walked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 walked	cc
32	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brushed	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 palace	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 palace	det
35	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 walked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	past	face	face's shoes and face's coat				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	wash	past		face's face and face's hands				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
3	comb	past		face's soft flaxen hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	go out	past	face not said here		the town	then	alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	walk	past	face not said here				to the palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result

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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