Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 62
This, as well as his singular dress, convinced the woman that he was a foreigner.
Who acts: This, singular dress, German · What happens: dress, convince, be · To what, where: woman, foreigner
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 (This, singular dress, German), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 dress | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dress | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 8 dress | cc |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 as | fixed |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dress | amod |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 convinced | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dress | punct |
| 10 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 convinced | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 foreigner | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 foreigner | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 foreigner | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 foreigner | det |
| 17 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 convinced | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | convince | past | German's singular dress | the woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | German | a foreigner | 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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