Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 67

The hat became him very well, for hitherto he had only worn a cap.

Who acts: hat, nearer · What happens: become, wear · To what, where: nearer, cap

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hat, nearer), 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 hat	det
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 became	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worn	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hitherto	case
9	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	13 worn	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worn	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 worn	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 worn	advmod
13	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 became	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worn	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the hat	nearer = near				well property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	wear	past · perfect	nearer = near	a cap					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme

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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