Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 27

An old horse drew the cart on which she sat. They had dressed her in a garment of coarse sackcloth.

Who acts: old horse, horse · What happens: draw, dress · To what, where: cart, swan

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 horse, horse), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dressed	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dressed	nsubj
10	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	13 dressed	nsubj
11	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dressed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dressed	aux
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cart	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dressed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garment	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 garment	det
17	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sackcloth	case
19	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sackcloth	amod
20	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 garment	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	a old horse	the cart					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
2	dress	past · perfect	horse	swan		the cart		in a garment of coarse sackcloth	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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