Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 136
So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.
What happens: be, alter, suspect · To what, where: Prince, worse, appearance, that
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 worse | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 worse | det |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 altered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wear | case |
| 6 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worse | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 he | cop |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wear | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 altered | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 altered | nsubj |
| 14 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 appearance | case |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 altered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 suspected | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 suspected | nsubj |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 suspected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 suspected | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 suspected | aux |
| 22 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 altered | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 suspected | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Prince | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Prince | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 suspected | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 altered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | alter | past · perfect · passive | the worse | appearance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | suspect | would · perfect · passive | that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | of a Prince | 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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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