Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 22

He was dirty and ugly, half-frozen and half-starved; he always looked as if he never had enough to eat, which was really the case.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, freeze, starve, look, not have, eat · To what, where: case

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dirty	cop
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ugly	cc
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dirty	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frozen	punct
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 frozen	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dirty	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 starved	cc
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 starved	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 frozen	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 looked	advmod
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dirty	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	advcl
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 case	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 case	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 case	cop
29	really	really	ADV	_	31 case	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 case	det
31	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy		dirty property	tree rules
2	be		boy not said here			tree rules
3	freeze	participle	boy not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	starve	participle	boy not said here			tree rules
5	look	past	boy		always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	not have	past	boy		enough property	tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past		the case		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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