Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 111

The red jacket fitted tight and close, the tassel on my Fez cap was of silver, and in my girdle glittered a knife and my pistols.

Who acts: red jacket, tassel · What happens: fit, be, glitter · To what, where: knife, girdle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red jacket, tassel), 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	3 jacket	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jacket	amod
3	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	nsubj
4	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fitted	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 close	cc
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tight	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tassel	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tassel	det
10	tassel	tassel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 silver	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 cap	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cap	nmod:poss
13	Fez	fez	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cap	compound
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tassel	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 silver	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 silver	case
17	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 glittered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 glittered	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 girdle	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 girdle	nmod:poss
22	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glittered	obl
23	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fitted	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knife	det
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glittered	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pistols	cc
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pistols	nmod:poss
28	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 glittered	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fit	past	the red jacket			tight property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the tassel on my Fez cap			of silver	tree rules
3	glitter	past		a knife	my girdle		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

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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