Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 56
The old king wore new robes, and the golden crown and sceptre had been polished up so that he looked quite smart.
Who acts: old king, king · What happens: wear, polish up, look · To what, where: new robes, golden crown
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, 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 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robes | amod |
| 6 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 polished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 polished | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crown | amod |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sceptre | cc |
| 13 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 polished | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 polished | aux:pass |
| 16 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wore | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 polished | compound:prt |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 looked | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 polished | advcl |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 smart | advmod |
| 23 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looked | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the old king | new robes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | polish up | past · perfect · passive | the golden crown and sceptre | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | look | past | king | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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