Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 46

Now he was fourteen years of age, tall, handsome, and clever.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be · To what, where: fourteen years

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 years	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tall	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handsome	punct
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tall	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tall	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	boy	fourteen years			of age; now		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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