Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 76

However, he came and paid his visit dressed in his black velvet coat.

Who acts: neighbor · What happens: come, pay, dress, visit · To what, where: visit, black velvet coat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 paid	cc
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visit	nmod:poss
8	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obj
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 visit	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 coat	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coat	nmod:poss
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coat	amod
13	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coat	compound
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	neighbor			however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay	past	neighbor not said here	neighbor's visit			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
3	dress	participle		neighbor's visit not said here	neighbor's black velvet coat		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	visit		neighbor				nom visit «act 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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