Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 54

He had the crown on his head, carried his sceptre in one hand, and the orb in the other. "

Who acts: John · What happens: have, carry · To what, where: crown, head, sceptre, one hand

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crown	det
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sceptre	nmod:poss
11	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hand	nummod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 orb	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 orb	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 orb	det
18	orb	orb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 orb	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	the crown		John's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
2	carry	past		John's sceptre		one hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sceptre=Value in hand=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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