Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 13
The old king stood near, wiping his eyes with his white pocket-handkerchief.
Who acts: old king · What happens: stand, wipe · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wiping | punct |
| 7 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wiping | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 handkerchief | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 handkerchief | amod |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pocket | punct |
| 15 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wiping | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the old king | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wipe | gerund | the old king not said here | king's eyes | with king's white pocket handkerchief | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source |
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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