Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 84
I really believe I am as good as many a one who sits in the church, and holds her head so high!”
Who acts: I · What happens: believe, be, sit, hold · To what, where: church, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 believe | advmod |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 good | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sits | nsubj |
| 13 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sits | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 holds | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 holds | cc |
| 19 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holds | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 high | advmod |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 holds | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 high | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | as a many one; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | the church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location | |||||
| 4 | hold | present | Karen's head | high obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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