Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 12
In his right-hand pocket he had a letter of credit; in his left-hand pocket was his passport; and a few louis d'ors were sewn into a little leather bag which he carried in his breast-pocket.
Who acts: head · What happens: have, be, sew, carry, letter · To what, where: letter, hand pocket, passport, few louis d'ors, little leather bag, breast pocket
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 pocket | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pocket | compound |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl | ||
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 credit | case |
| 12 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 passport | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pocket | compound |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passport | obl | ||
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 passport | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 passport | nmod:poss |
| 22 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 sewn | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sewn | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 d'ors | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 d'ors | amod |
| 27 | louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 d'ors | compound |
| 28 | d'ors | d'or | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sewn | aux:pass |
| 30 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 had | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 bag | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bag | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bag | amod |
| 34 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bag | compound |
| 35 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sewn | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 carried | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carried | nsubj |
| 38 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 bag | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 pocket | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 41 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pocket | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 breast | punct |
| 43 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carried | obl | ||
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | head | a letter of credit | head's hand pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | head's passport | head's hand pocket | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sew | past · passive | a few louis d'ors | a little leather bag | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into bag=Product | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | head | a little leather bag | head's breast pocket | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in pocket=Location | |||
| 5 | letter | credit | nom letter «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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