Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 6

And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses and other flowers, and with arabesques, for he was a tasty, light-fingered fellow.

Who acts: other · What happens: know, embroider, finger, be · To what, where: one thing, suspenders, tasty fingered fellow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 knew	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 embroider	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 embroider	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 embroider	aux
10	embroider	embroider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
11	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 embroider	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 roses	case
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 embroider	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flowers	cc
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roses	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arabesques	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 arabesques	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 arabesques	case
20	arabesques	arabesque	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 embroider	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fellow	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 fellow	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fellow	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fellow	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fellow	det
26	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fellow	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tasty	punct
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fingered	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
30	fingered	finger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 fellow	amod
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arabesques	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	other	one thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	embroider	could	other	suspenders	with roses and other flowers	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent suspender=Destination with rose=Theme
3	finger	participle				tree rules
4	is a	past	other	a tasty fingered fellow		tree rules

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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