Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 85
It was really most remarkable how very much he had become a man in appearance.
Who acts: word, man · What happens: be, become · To what, where: man
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: who acts (word, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remarkable | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarkable | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 remarkable | advmod |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 remarkable | advmod |
| 5 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 become | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 become | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 become | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 become | aux |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 remarkable | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 become | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 appearance | case |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | word | remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | man | a man in appearance | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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