Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 58
They saw him anxiously feeling over an old ragged coat in which pieces of gold were sewn, and his clammy fingers trembled.
Who acts: men, footman, clammy fingers · What happens: see, feel, sew, tremble · To what, where: footman, old ragged coat, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, footman, clammy fingers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 coat | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coat | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coat | amod |
| 9 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coat | amod |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeling | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sewn | obl |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sewn | aux:pass |
| 17 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 coat | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trembled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trembled | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clammy | clammy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fingers | amod |
| 22 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trembled | nsubj |
| 23 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | men = man | footman | anxiously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | footman not said here | a old ragged coat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over coat=Location | ||||
| 3 | sew | past · passive | pieces of gold | a old ragged coat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | tremble | past | footman's clammy fingers | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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