Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 110
And the General felt more and more convinced that George was no cellar-child.
Who acts: General, George · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: cellar child
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, George), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 General | det |
| 3 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 felt | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 convinced | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 convinced | advmod |
| 8 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 child | mark |
| 10 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 child | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 child | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 child | det |
| 13 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 child | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cellar | punct |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 convinced | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the General | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | George | no cellar child | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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