Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 15
Nothing in the world can be compared with red shoes.
What happens: compare · To what, where: Nothing
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 world | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 compared | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 compared | aux:pass |
| 7 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoes | amod |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 compared | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | can · passive | Nothing | with red shoes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with shoe=Co-Patient |
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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