Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 53
John opened it, and the old king, in a dressing gown and embroidered slippers, came towards him.
Who acts: John · What happens: open, embroider, come · To what, where: hair, dressing gown, slippers
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 (John), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 king | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gown | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gown | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gown | det |
| 12 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gown | compound |
| 13 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 embroidered | cc |
| 15 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 16 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 embroidered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 embroidered | conj |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | John | hair | a dressing gown | the old king obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in gown=Location | ||
| 2 | embroider | past | John not said here | slippers | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | past | John not said here | towards John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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