Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 48

Besides this, he wore a bear-skin, and great, warm boots, while his sons went with their throats bare and wore no braces, for they were strong men.

Who acts: Two, sons · What happens: wear, go, be · To what, where: bear skin, braces

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, sons), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wore	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boots	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 boots	cc
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boots	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 great	punct
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boots	amod
15	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wore	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sons	nmod:poss
19	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wore	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 throats	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 throats	nmod:poss
23	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 went	obl
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 went	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wore	cc
26	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 braces	det
28	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wore	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 men	case
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 men	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 men	cop
33	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wore	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Two	a bear skin	besides this; great warm boots obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source
2	go	past	Two's sons		with sons's throats; bare property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with throat=Beneficiary
3	wear	past	Two's sons not said here	no braces		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brace=Theme
4	is	past	sons = son		for strong men	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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