The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 166
He looked so distinguished that hardly anyone would have known who he was.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: look, know, be · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 distinguished | advmod |
| 4 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 known | mark |
| 6 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 known | advmod |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 known | aux |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 distinguished | advcl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 known | ccomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 who | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 who | cop |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Michael | distinguished property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | would · perfect · passive | anyone | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Michael | 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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