Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 78
The gentlemen appeared clad in steel, or in rich cloaks lined with squirrel's fur; they wore little ruffs, and swords at their sides.
Who acts: gentlemen · What happens: appear, clad, line, wear · To what, where: steel, rich cloaks, little ruffs, sides
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 (gentlemen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gentlemen | det |
| 2 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 steel | case |
| 6 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clad | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 or | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 appeared | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cloaks | case |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cloaks | amod |
| 11 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 or | nmod |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cloaks | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fur | case |
| 14 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fur | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 squirrel | case |
| 16 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lined | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wore | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wore | nsubj |
| 19 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | parataxis |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ruffs | amod |
| 21 | ruffs | ruff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wore | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 swords | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 swords | cc |
| 24 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ruffs | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 sides | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sides | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wore | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the gentlemen | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | clad | participle | the gentlemen not said here | steel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | line | participle | rich cloaks not said here | with squirrel's fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | gentlemen = gentleman | little ruffs and swords | gentlemen's sides | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ruff=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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