Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 62
As to the rest, the man was very finely dressed--he must be a gentleman.
Who acts: man · What happens: dress, be · To what, where: man, gentleman
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rest | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dressed | aux:pass |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 finely | advmod |
| 10 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 11 dressed | advmod |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 gentleman | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gentleman | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 gentleman | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gentleman | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gentleman | det |
| 17 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | the man | as the rest; finely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | man | a gentleman | 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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