Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 11

As the old man related this story, he was carving an image in wood to represent Holger Danske, to be fastened to the prow of a ship; for the old grandfather was a carver in wood, that is, one who carved figures for the heads of ships, according to the names given to them.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: relate, carve, represent, fasten, be, accord · To what, where: story, image, wood, Holger, carver, figures

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 related	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	nsubj
5	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carving	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carving	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carving	aux
11	carving	carve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 related	advcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 image	det
13	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carving	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carving	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 represent	mark
17	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 carving	advcl
18	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 represent	obj
19	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Holger	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fastened	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	23 fastened	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 fastened	aux:pass
23	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Holger	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 prow	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prow	det
26	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fastened	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ship	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ship	det
29	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 prow	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 carver	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 grandfather	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grandfather	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grandfather	amod
34	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carver	obl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 carver	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 carver	det
37	carver	carver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 related	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 wood	case
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carver	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 one	punct
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 one	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 that	fixed
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 one	punct
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 carver	conj
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 carved	nsubj
46	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 one	acl:relcl
47	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 carved	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 heads	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 heads	det
50	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 figures	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 ships	case
52	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 heads	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 names	punct
54	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 names	case
55	to	to	ADP	_	54 according	fixed
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 names	det
57	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 carver	parataxis
58	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 names	acl
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 given	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	past	the old man	this story				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	carve	past · progressive	man	a image		wood		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent image=Theme in wood=Destination
3	represent	to-infinitive	man not said here	Holger				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot holger=Theme
4	fasten	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here	Holger not said here			to the prow of a ship	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to prow=Co-Patient
5	is a	past		a carver		wood	for the old grandfather	tree rules
6	carve	past		figures			for the heads of ships	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent figure=Product for head=Asset
7	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	give	participle		the names not said here	names = name			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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