Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 26

The old elf king had his gold crown polished up with powdered slate-pencil; it was like that used by the first form, and very difficult for an elf king to obtain.

Who acts: old elf king, first form, king · What happens: have, polish up, powder, use, obtain, crown · To what, where: gold crown, crown

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old elf king, first form, king), 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	4 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
3	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crown	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crown	amod
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 crown	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 polished	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 pencil	case
12	powdered	powder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pencil	amod
13	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pencil	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 slate	punct
15	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 polished	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 used	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 used	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 used	aux:pass
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 used	nsubj:pass
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 form	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 form	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 form	amod
25	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 used	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 difficult	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 difficult	cc
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 difficult	advmod
29	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 used	parataxis
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 king	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 king	det
32	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 king	compound
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 difficult	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 obtain	mark
35	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 difficult	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old elf king	king's gold crown		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
2	polish up	participle		king's gold crown not said here	with powdered slate pencil	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pencil=Theme
3	powder	participle				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	use	past · passive	the first form	crown		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	obtain	to-infinitive	the first form not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	crown		king			nom crown «communication 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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