Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 112

Aphtanides was clad in the blue dress worn by the Greek sailors; on his breast hung a silver medal with the figure of the Virgin Mary, and his scarf was as costly as those worn by rich lords.

Who acts: scarf · What happens: clad, wear, hang, be, figure · To what, where: Aphtanides, blue dress, silver medal, breast, Virgin Mary

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 (scarf), 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	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clad	aux:pass
3	clad	clad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 dress	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dress	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dress	amod
7	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clad	obl
8	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dress	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 sailors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sailors	det
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sailors	amod
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worn	obl:agent
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 breast	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breast	nmod:poss
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obl
17	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clad	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 medal	det
19	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 medal	amod
20	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 figure	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 figure	det
23	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Mary	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mary	det
26	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Mary	compound
27	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 figure	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 costly	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 costly	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 scarf	nmod:poss
31	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 costly	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 costly	cop
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 costly	advmod
34	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hung	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 those	case
36	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 costly	obl
37	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 those	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 lords	case
39	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 lords	amod
40	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 worn	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clad	past · passive		Aphtanides	the blue dress		tree rules
2	wear	participle		the blue dress not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past		a silver medal	Aphtanides's breast	with the figure of the Virgin Mary	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent medal=Patient with figure=Instrument
4	is	past	Aphtanides's scarf			as those; costly property	tree rules
5	wear	participle				by rich lords	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	figure			the Virgin Mary			nom figure «communication transitive»: 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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