Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 86

“That's much more interesting than real flowers!

Who acts: That · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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	_	6 interesting	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 interesting	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 interesting	advmod
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 interesting	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That					than real flowers; interesting 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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