The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 100
So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.
What happens: be, alter, suspect · To what, where: Prince, worse, appearance, that
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 worse | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 worse | det |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 altered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wear | case |
| 6 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worse | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 he | cop |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wear | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 altered | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 altered | nsubj |
| 14 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 appearance | case |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 altered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 suspected | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 suspected | nsubj |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 suspected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 suspected | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 suspected | aux |
| 22 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 altered | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 suspected | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Prince | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Prince | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 suspected | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 altered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | alter | past · perfect · passive | the worse | appearance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | suspect | would · perfect · passive | that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | of a Prince | 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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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