Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 59

He immediately untied the handkerchief, and was himself quite frightened when he saw the head of the ugly magician.

Who acts: John · What happens: untie, be, see · To what, where: handkerchief, head

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 (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	3 untied	nsubj
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 untied	advmod
3	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 handkerchief	det
5	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 untied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frightened	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	cop
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 frightened	nsubj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 untied	parataxis
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 magician	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 magician	det
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 magician	amod
20	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 untied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	untie	past	John	the handkerchief	immediately property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
2	is	past	John		frighten property	tree rules
3	see	past	John	the head of the ugly magician		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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