Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 4

The uncle was an experienced hunter; he also followed the trade of a cooper; his wife was a lively little person, with a face like a bird, eyes like those of an eagle, and a long, hairy throat.

Who acts: uncle, Rudy, wife · What happens: be, follow, trade · To what, where: experienced hunter, trade, lively little person, cooper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, Rudy, wife), 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	2 uncle	det
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hunter	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hunter	det
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunter	amod
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 followed	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 followed	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 followed	advmod
10	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hunter	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trade	det
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cooper	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cooper	det
15	cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trade	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 person	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 person	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 person	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
21	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunter	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 face	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 face	det
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 person	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 bird	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bird	det
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 face	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eyes	punct
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 person	appos
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 those	case
34	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 eyes	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 eagle	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eagle	det
37	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 those	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 throat	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 throat	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 throat	det
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 throat	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 long	punct
43	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 throat	amod
44	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 person	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hunter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the uncle	a experienced hunter and a lively little person and a face like a bird and a long hairy throat	tree rules
2	follow	past	Rudy	the trade of a cooper	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme
3	is a	past	Rudy's wife	a lively little person and a face like a bird and a long hairy throat	tree rules
4	trade			a cooper	nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient

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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