Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 13
The principal person in the procession was a clerical-looking gentleman.
Who acts: principal person · What happens: look, be · To what, where: looking gentleman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (principal person), 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 | 3 person | det |
| 2 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gentleman | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 procession | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 procession | det |
| 6 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 person | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gentleman | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gentleman | det |
| 9 | clerical | clerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 clerical | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gentleman | amod |
| 12 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gentleman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the principal person in the procession | a looking gentleman | 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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