Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 42

He was all in white; he had on a peasant's coarse white coat of frieze.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: coarse white coat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 white	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 white	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	15 coat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coat	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 peasant	case
13	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 frieze	case
17	frieze	frieze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coat	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man					all, white property	tree rules
2	have	past	man			a peasant's coarse white coat of frieze			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/42/