Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 40
Gold-band, the next finger, wore a golden circle round his waist.
Who acts: Gold · What happens: wear · To what, where: golden circle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold), 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 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 band | punct |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finger | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 finger | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 finger | amod |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gold | punct |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 circle | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 circle | amod |
| 12 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | obj |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 waist | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 waist | nmod:poss |
| 15 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 circle | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Gold and band and the next finger | a golden circle | round Longman's waist | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent circle=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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