Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 55
He was, however, very well dressed, and looked like a gentleman. "
What happens: dress, look · To what, where: tap
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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: 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 | 8 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 dressed | advmod |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dressed | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 gentleman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gentleman | det |
| 14 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | tap | however, well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | like a gentleman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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