Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 35
“You are certainly the first opera dancer.
Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: first opera dancer
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 8 dancer | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 dancer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dancer | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 dancer | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dancer | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 dancer | amod |
| 7 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dancer | compound |
| 8 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the first opera dancer | certainly 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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