Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 137

He had a lofty white forehead, and carried it so high that it seemed to go back into his neck.

Who acts: son, it · What happens: have, carry, seem, go back · To what, where: lofty white forehead, forehead, neck

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forehead	det
4	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forehead	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forehead	amod
6	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carried	cc
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 high	advmod
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carried	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 seemed	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 high	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	son	a lofty white forehead			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient
2	carry	past	son not said here	forehead		high property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	go back	to-infinitive			son's neck		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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