Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 80
He turned round anew, firmly convinced that he was seriously ill.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: turn round, be
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 (Councillor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 convinced | punct |
| 6 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 7 convinced | advmod |
| 7 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ill | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ill | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ill | cop |
| 11 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 12 ill | advmod |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 convinced | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | Councillor | anew, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Councillor | ill, seriously 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: «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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