Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 34

He looked a personification of fasting; but he carried his nose very high, for he was related to the "forty (k)nights," and was a weather prophet.

Who acts: man, personification · What happens: look, fast, carry, be · To what, where: personification, nose, weather prophet

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 (man, personification), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 personification	det
4	personification	personification	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 fasting	mark
6	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 personification	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nose	nmod:poss
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carried	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 related	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 related	case
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 related	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 related	cop
19	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carried	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	27 nights	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nights	det
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 forty	punct
23	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 nights	nummod
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 k	punct
25	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nights	compound
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 k	punct
27	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 related	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nights	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 related	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 prophet	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prophet	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 prophet	det
33	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 prophet	compound
34	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	man	a personification			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme personification=Attribute
2	fast	gerund	a personification not said here				tree rules
3	carry	past	man	man's nose			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
4	is	past	man		night	related property	tree rules
5	is a	past	man not said here	a weather prophet			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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