Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 60
He was a plump young fellow, clad in summer garments and wearing a straw hat.
Who acts: singer, plump young fellow · What happens: be, clad, wear · To what, where: plump young fellow, summer garments, straw hat
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 (singer, plump young fellow), 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 | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 4 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clad | punct |
| 8 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garments | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garments | compound |
| 11 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 clad | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wearing | cc |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 clad | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hat | det |
| 15 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hat | compound |
| 16 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | singer | a plump young fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clad | past | a plump young fellow not said here | summer garments | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | a plump young fellow not said here | a straw hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
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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