Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 17

And in his haughtiness and foolish presumption he ordered a magnificent ship to be constructed, with which he could sail through the air; it was gorgeously fitted out and of many colours; like the tail of a peacock, it was covered with thousands of eyes, but each eye was the barrel of a gun.

Who acts: God, eye · What happens: order, construct, sail, fit out, cover, be · To what, where: magnificent ship, haughtiness, air, ship, barrel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, eye), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 ordered	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 haughtiness	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 haughtiness	nmod:poss
4	haughtiness	haughtiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 presumption	cc
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 presumption	amod
7	presumption	presumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 haughtiness	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ordered	nsubj
9	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ship	det
11	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ship	amod
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 constructed	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 constructed	aux:pass
15	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ship	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sail	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sail	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sail	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sail	aux
21	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 constructed	parataxis
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sail	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 fitted	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fitted	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fitted	aux:pass
28	gorgeously	gorgeously	ADV	_	29 fitted	advmod
29	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ordered	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 fitted	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 colours	cc
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 colours	case
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 colours	amod
34	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fitted	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 covered	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 tail	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tail	det
38	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 covered	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 peacock	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 peacock	det
41	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tail	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tail	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 covered	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 covered	aux:pass
45	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ordered	conj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 thousands	case
47	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 covered	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 eyes	case
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 thousands	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 barrel	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 barrel	cc
52	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	53 eye	det
53	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 barrel	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 barrel	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 barrel	det
56	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 covered	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 gun	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 gun	det
59	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 barrel	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	God	a magnificent ship	God's haughtiness and foolish presumption		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
2	construct	to-infinitive · passive	God not said here	a magnificent ship not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»
3	sail	could	God		the air		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory
4	fit out	past · passive		ship		gorgeously property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	cover	past · passive		ship		like the tail of a peacock; with thousands of eyes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with thousand=Theme
6	is a	past	each eye	the barrel		of a gun	tree rules

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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