Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 151
Waldemar Daa hid the glass in his bosom, and, taking his stick in his hand, the once rich gentleman passed with his daughters out of the house of Borreby.
Who acts: Waldemar, rich gentleman, glass · What happens: hide, take, pass, bosom · To what, where: glass, bosom, stick, hand, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waldemar, rich gentleman, glass), 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 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waldemar | flat |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glass | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bosom | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taking | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hid | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stick | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gentleman | det |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 rich | advmod |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gentleman | amod |
| 22 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 daughters | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passed | obl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Borreby | case |
| 32 | Borreby | Borreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Waldemar | the glass | glass's bosom | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Patient in bosom=Location | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Waldemar not said here | glass's stick | glass's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | pass | past | the rich gentleman | the house of Borreby | with glass's daughters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out house=Location | |||
| 4 | bosom | glass | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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