Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 7
He is clad in iron and steel, and rests his head on his strong arm; his long beard hangs down upon the marble table, into which it has become firmly rooted; he sleeps and dreams, but in his dreams he sees everything that happens in Denmark.
Who acts: long beard, beard, Holger · What happens: clad, rest, hang down, become, root, sleep · To what, where: Holger, iron, head, strong arm, marble table, everything
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 (long beard, beard, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clad | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | aux:pass |
| 3 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 iron | case |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clad | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 steel | cc |
| 7 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 iron | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rests | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rests | cc |
| 10 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rests | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 arm | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arm | amod |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rests | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hangs | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 beard | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beard | amod |
| 20 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hangs | nsubj |
| 21 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rests | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 hangs | advmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 25 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 table | compound |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hangs | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 become | punct |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 become | obl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 become | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 become | aux |
| 32 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 hangs | conj |
| 33 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 34 rooted | advmod |
| 34 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 become | xcomp |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 sleeps | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sleeps | nsubj |
| 37 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dreams | cc |
| 39 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sleeps | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sees | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 sees | cc |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 dreams | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 44 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 sees | obl |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sees | nsubj |
| 46 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sleeps | conj |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 46 sees | obj |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 happens | nsubj |
| 49 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 everything | acl:relcl |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 Denmark | case |
| 51 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 happens | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | present · passive | Holger | iron and steel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | present | Holger's head | Holger's strong arm | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on arm=Location | ||||
| 3 | hang down | present | Holger's long beard | the marble table | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon table=Location | |||
| 4 | become | present · perfect | beard | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | root | participle | beard not said here | firmly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sleep | present | Holger | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | dream | present | Holger not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | see | present | Holger | everything | Holger's dreams | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | happen | present | Denmark | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in denmark=Location | |||||
| 10 | dream | Holger | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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