Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 73
There he stood with his color pot in his hand, and that was the whole of his luggage.
Who acts: painter, that · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painter, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whole | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whole | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 whole | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whole | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whole | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 luggage | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 luggage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | luggage | luggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whole | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | painter | painter's hand; there | with painter's color pot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | of painter's luggage; whole property | tree rules |
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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