Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 13
He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went into the town: he could so this very well, for the Turks always go about dressed in dressing-gowns and slippers, as he was himself.
Who acts: bottom · What happens: hide, go, go about, dress, be · To what, where: trunk, wood, town, dressing gowns, bottom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trunk | det |
| 4 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 leaves | det |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaves | amod |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 could | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 well | nsubj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 could | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Turks | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Turks | det |
| 29 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 go | obl |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 dressed | advmod |
| 33 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 go | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 gowns | case |
| 35 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gowns | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 dressing | punct |
| 37 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 dressed | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 slippers | cc |
| 39 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 gowns | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 himself | punct |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 himself | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 himself | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 himself | cop |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 dressed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | bottom | the trunk | the wood | under some dry leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient in wood=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | the town | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go about | present | bottom not said here | for the Turks; always property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | bottom not said here | dressing gowns and slippers | about property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is a | past | bottom | bottom | 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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