Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 32
The old grandfather wiped his eyes, for he had known King Frederick, with his silvery locks and his honest blue eyes, and had lived for him, and he folded his hands and remained for some time silent.
Who acts: old grandfather, grandfather · What happens: wipe, know, live, fold, remain · To what, where: eyes, grandfather, hands
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 grandfather, grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grandfather | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wiped | nsubj |
| 4 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wiped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 known | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wiped | conj |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Frederick | compound |
| 13 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 locks | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 locks | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 locks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 locks | amod |
| 18 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 known | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eyes | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 locks | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lived | cc |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | aux |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wiped | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 folded | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 folded | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 folded | nsubj |
| 33 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wiped | parataxis |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hands | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 folded | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 remained | cc |
| 37 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 folded | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 time | det |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 remained | obl |
| 41 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 remained | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | past | the old grandfather | grandfather's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 2 | know | past · perfect · passive | grandfather | with Frederick's silvery locks and Frederick's honest blue eyes; King Frederick obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | live | past · perfect | the old grandfather not said here | for Frederick | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fold | past | grandfather | Frederick's hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 5 | remain | participle | grandfather not said here | time | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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