Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 19

He fixed the leaf to the student's cap in the green wood, when they vowed eternal friendship.

Who acts: many, leaves · What happens: fix, vow · To what, where: leaf, green wood, eternal friendship

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, leaves), 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	2 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 cap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 student	det
7	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cap	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 student	case
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vowed	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 vowed	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 vowed	nsubj
17	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
18	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 friendship	amod
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vowed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	many	the leaf		the green wood		to the student's cap	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient to cap=Co-Patient
2	vow	past	leaves = leaf	eternal friendship					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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