Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 17
There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world?
Who acts: you, we · What happens: do, not see, be · To what, where: more, folks
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 done | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 done | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 creatures | case |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 creatures | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 creatures | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creatures | amod |
| 11 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 done | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creatures | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 sure | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 folks | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 folks | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 folks | cop |
| 24 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 quality | case |
| 26 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folks | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quality | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | more | there | for us; than all other creatures | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | we | folks | of quality in the world | 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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