Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 87
The shadow was, in fact, very well dressed, and this made a man of him. "
Who acts: shadow, this · What happens: be, dress, make · To what, where: fact, 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 (shadow, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shadow | det |
| 2 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fact | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fact | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fact | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fact | case |
| 6 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dressed | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 dressed | advmod |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fact | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fact | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the shadow | fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | fact not said here | well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | this | a man of man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
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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