Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 81
At the same moment his coat-tails and sleeves grew together and formed wings, his clothes changed to feathers, and his goloshes to claws.
Who acts: coat tails, clothes · What happens: grow, form, change · To what, where: goloshes, wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat tails, clothes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tails | nmod:poss |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tails | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 coat | punct |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sleeves | cc |
| 10 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tails | conj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 grew | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 formed | cc |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 formed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 changed | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 feathers | case |
| 21 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 changed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 goloshes | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 goloshes | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 goloshes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 claws | case |
| 27 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 goloshes | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Flying's coat tails and sleeves | Flying's goloshes to claws | moment | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | form | past | Flying's coat tails and sleeves not said here | wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Flying's clothes | to feathers result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to feather=Result |
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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