Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 119
This reply fully satisfied the Councillor; the title suited the dress.
Who acts: reply, title · What happens: satisfy, suit · To what, where: Councillor, dress
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reply, title), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 4 satisfied | advmod |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Councillor | det |
| 6 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 suited | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 title | det |
| 9 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suited | nsubj |
| 10 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dress | det |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suited | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past | this reply | the Councillor | fully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus councillor=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | suit | past | the title | the dress | 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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