Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 16
I am myself;" and a famous fellow he looked, arrayed in bear-skin and fur boots. "
Who acts: I, sentry · What happens: be, look, array · To what, where: myself, famous fellow, bear skin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sentry), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 myself | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 myself | cop |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fellow | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fellow | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 myself | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrayed | punct |
| 13 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fellow | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 skin | case |
| 15 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bear | punct |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrayed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boots | cc |
| 19 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boots | compound |
| 20 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 skin | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fellow | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | sentry | a famous fellow not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fellow=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | array in a quote | participle | a famous fellow not said here | bear skin and fur boots | 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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