Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 12

And now he had carved Holger Danske, who stood there erect and proud, with his long beard, holding in one hand his broad battle-axe, while with the other he leaned on the Danish arms.

Who acts: Holger · What happens: carve, stand, hold, learn · To what, where: Holger, broad battle axe, one hand, Danish arms

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 (Holger), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 carved	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 carved	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carved	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	aux
5	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carved	obj
7	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Holger	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Holger	acl:relcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stood	advmod
12	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proud	cc
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 erect	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beard	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 beard	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 beard	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beard	amod
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 holding	punct
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 carved	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hand	nummod
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 axe	nmod:poss
26	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 axe	amod
27	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 axe	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 battle	punct
29	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leaned	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 leaned	mark
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 other	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 leaned	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 leaned	nsubj
36	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carved	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 arms	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 arms	det
39	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 arms	amod
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 leaned	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · perfect	Holger	Holger		now		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holger=Theme
2	stand	past	Holger		there		with Holger's long beard; erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	gerund	Holger not said here	Holger's broad battle axe	one hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in hand=Location
4	learn	past	Holger		the Danish arms		with the other	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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