Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 121

Then he dressed his old grandmother in her best clothes, borrowed a horse of his neighbor, and harnessed it to a cart.

Who acts: Claus · What happens: dress, borrow, harness · To what, where: old grandmother, best clothes, horse, neighbor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus), 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	3 dressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grandmother	amod
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 clothes	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 clothes	amod
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dressed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 borrowed	punct
12	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 borrowed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 neighbor	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neighbor	nmod:poss
17	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 harnessed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 harnessed	cc
20	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 harnessed	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cart	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cart	det
24	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 harnessed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Claus	Claus's old grandmother	grandmother's best clothes	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient
2	borrow	past	Claus not said here	a horse of Claus's neighbor				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	harness	past	Claus not said here	neighbor			to a cart	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to cart=Co-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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