Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 41
It is true I was a very fine gentleman; quite stuck up.
Who acts: peace, I · What happens: be, stick up · To what, where: fine gentleman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, I), 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 | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gentleman | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gentleman | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 fine | advmod |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gentleman | amod |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuck | punct |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 stuck | advmod |
| 12 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 true | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 stuck | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | peace | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | a fine gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stick up | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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