Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 86
He was dressed in a suit of the very finest black cloth, polished boots, and an opera crush hat, which could be folded together so that nothing could be seen but the crown and the rim, besides the trinkets, the gold chain, and the diamond rings already spoken of.
What happens: dress, polish, fold, see, speak · To what, where: man, suit, opera crush hat, nothing, diamond · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 suit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 suit | det |
| 6 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cloth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloth | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 finest | advmod |
| 10 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 cloth | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cloth | amod |
| 12 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boots | punct |
| 14 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 boots | amod |
| 15 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cloth | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hat | cc |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hat | det |
| 19 | opera | opera | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hat | amod |
| 20 | crush | crush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hat | compound |
| 21 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 folded | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 folded | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 folded | aux:pass |
| 26 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hat | conj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 folded | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 seen | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seen | aux:pass |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 folded | advcl |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 crown | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 crown | det |
| 36 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seen | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 rim | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rim | det |
| 39 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 crown | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 trinkets | punct |
| 41 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 43 trinkets | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trinkets | det |
| 43 | trinkets | trinket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 seen | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 chain | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 chain | det |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 chain | compound |
| 47 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 trinkets | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 spoken | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 spoken | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 diamond | det |
| 51 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 spoken | aux:pass |
| 53 | already | already | ADV | _ | 54 spoken | advmod |
| 54 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dressed | parataxis |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 spoken | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | man | a suit of the finest black cloth and polished boots | a opera crush hat obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fold | could · passive | a opera crush hat | together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | could · passive | nothing | besides the trinkets and the gold chain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present · passive | the diamond | 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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