Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 151

“There's many a one considerably older than I am.”

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 many	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 many	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 many	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 older	det
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 older	nsubj
7	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	8 older	advmod
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 many	advcl
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 am	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 am	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 older	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 many	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				there		many property	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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