Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 8

He stood before the mayor in his poor but clean and well-mended clothes, with heavy wooden shoes on his feet, looking as humble as if it had been the king himself.

Who acts: boy, peak · What happens: stand, mend, look, be · To what, where: poor mended clothes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, peak), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 mayor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mayor	det
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 clothes	nmod:poss
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clothes	amod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 clean	cc
10	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poor	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 clothes	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 mended	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 clothes	amod
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shoes	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 shoes	case
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shoes	amod
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shoes	amod
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clothes	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shoes	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 humble	advmod
27	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looking	xcomp
28	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 king	case
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 as	fixed
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 king	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 king	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 king	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 humble	obl
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 king	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	boy	boy's poor mended clothes and heavy wooden shoes on boy's feet	before the mayor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before mayor=Location
2	mend	participle				well property	tree rules
3	look	gerund	boy not said here			humble property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past · perfect	peak			as the king; boy nmod	tree rules

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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