Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 9
His outward appearance was characterized by a snub nose and a very fat back.
Who acts: snub nose · What happens: characterize · To what, where: outward appearance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snub nose), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appearance | amod |
| 3 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characterized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 characterized | aux:pass |
| 5 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nose | det |
| 8 | snub | snub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nose | compound |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characterized | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fat | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fat | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 fat | advmod |
| 13 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nose | acl:relcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 fat | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 characterized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | past · passive | a snub nose | visitor's outward appearance | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=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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