Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 47

There stood the old goblin from the Dovre mountains, with his crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones.

Who acts: Two · What happens: stand, harden, polish, crown · To what, where: old goblin, Dovre mountains, hardened ice

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 (Two), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goblin	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goblin	amod
5	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountains	det
8	Dovre	Dovre	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mountains	compound
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crown	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 crown	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 crown	nmod:poss
13	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ice	case
15	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ice	amod
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crown	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cones	cc
18	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cones	amod
19	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cones	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fir	punct
21	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ice	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the old goblin	the Dovre mountains; there	with Two's crown of hardened ice and polished fir cones	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goblin=Stimulus
2	harden	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	crown		Two	hardened ice and polished fir cones			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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