Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 20

The young cousin, whom they had brought with them, was dressed in white from head to foot; he had golden hair and golden whiskers, large enough to be divided amongst three gentlemen; and he began immediately to pay the greatest attention to Babette.

Who acts: Clarens · What happens: bring, dress, have, divide, begin, pay · To what, where: young cousin, white, golden hair, greatest attention

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clarens), 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 cousin	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 brought	nsubj:pass
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cousin	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dressed	aux:pass
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 white	case
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dressed	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 head	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressed	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 foot	case
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dressed	parataxis
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 whiskers	cc
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whiskers	amod
27	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hair	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 large	punct
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 large	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 divided	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 divided	aux:pass
33	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 large	advcl
34	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	36 gentlemen	case
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 gentlemen	nummod
36	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 divided	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 began	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 began	nsubj
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
41	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	40 began	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 pay	mark
43	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 attention	det
45	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 attention	amod
46	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pay	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 Babette	case
48	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 attention	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect · passive		the young cousin		with daughters = daughter	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	dress	past · passive		the young cousin	white	from head to foot	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past	Clarens	golden hair and golden whiskers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	divide	to-infinitive · passive	Clarens not said here			amongst three gentlemen	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
5	begin	past	Clarens			immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	pay	to-infinitive	Clarens not said here	the greatest attention		to Babette	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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