Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 6

Then came the Grasshopper: he was certainly much heavier, but he had a good figure, and wore the green uniform that was born with him.

Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: come, be, have, wear, bear · To what, where: good figure, green uniform

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Grasshopper	det
4	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 heavier	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heavier	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heavier	cop
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 heavier	advmod
10	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 came	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 figure	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 figure	amod
17	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wore	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wore	cc
20	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 uniform	det
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 uniform	amod
23	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wore	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 born	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 born	aux:pass
26	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 uniform	acl:relcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 born	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Grasshopper		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Grasshopper			heavy property	tree rules
3	have	past	Grasshopper	a good figure			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient
4	wear	past		the green uniform			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme
5	bear	past · passive		the green uniform		with Grasshopper	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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