Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 97
It was dressed entirely in black, and of the very finest cloth; it had patent leather boots, and a hat that could be folded together, so that it was bare crown and brim; not to speak of what we already know it had--seals, gold neck-chain, and diamond rings; yes, the shadow was well-dressed, and it was just that which made it quite a man.
Who acts: bond, we · What happens: dress, have, fold, be, not speak, know · To what, where: bond, black, patent leather boots, hat, seals, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bond, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 black | case |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cloth | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cloth | cc |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 finest | advmod |
| 12 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 cloth | amod |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 17 | patent | patent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boots | amod |
| 18 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boots | compound |
| 19 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hat | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hat | det |
| 23 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 folded | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 folded | aux:pass |
| 27 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hat | acl:relcl |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 folded | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crown | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 35 crown | case |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 crown | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 crown | cop |
| 34 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 crown | amod |
| 35 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 folded | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 brim | cc |
| 37 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 crown | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 speak | punct |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 speak | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 speak | mark |
| 41 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dressed | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 what | case |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 speak | obl |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 know | nsubj |
| 45 | already | already | ADV | _ | 46 know | advmod |
| 46 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 what | acl:relcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 had | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 know | ccomp |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 seals | punct |
| 50 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 speak | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 chain | punct |
| 52 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 chain | amod |
| 53 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 chain | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 neck | punct |
| 55 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 seals | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 rings | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 rings | cc |
| 58 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 rings | compound |
| 59 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 seals | conj |
| 60 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 68 dressed | punct |
| 61 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 68 dressed | discourse |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 yes | punct |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 shadow | det |
| 64 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 65 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 dressed | aux:pass |
| 66 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 68 dressed | advmod |
| 67 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 well | punct |
| 68 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dressed | parataxis |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 76 made | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 76 made | cc |
| 71 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 74 that | nsubj |
| 72 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 74 that | cop |
| 73 | just | just | ADV | _ | 74 that | advmod |
| 74 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 76 made | obl |
| 75 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 76 made | nsubj |
| 76 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 dressed | conj |
| 77 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 76 made | obj |
| 78 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 80 man | det:predet |
| 79 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 80 man | det |
| 80 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 made | obl |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | bond | black | of the finest cloth; entirely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | bond | patent leather boots | a hat obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient | |||
| 3 | fold | could · passive | a hat | together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | bond | so bare crown and brim | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | to-infinitive | seals and gold neck chain and diamond rings | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | have | past | bond | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | dress | past · passive | the shadow | well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 9 | is a | past | bond | that | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | make | past | bond | quite man obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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