Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 117
We were suited to each other in rank and circumstances.
What happens: suit · To what, where: We, rank
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suited | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suited | aux:pass |
| 3 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 suited | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rank | case |
| 8 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suited | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 circumstances | cc |
| 10 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rank | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | past · passive | We | rank and circumstances | to each | 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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