Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 31
He was dressed as a sailor, and looked small enough to be a middy, but he was not one. "
Who acts: Tuk · What happens: dress, look, be, not be · To what, where: Tuk, middy, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk), 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 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 sailor | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sailor | det |
| 6 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 middy | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 middy | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 middy | det |
| 15 | middy | middy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 small | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 looked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Tuk | as a sailor | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a middy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | Tuk | one | 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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