Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 94
It flies nineteen million times faster than the best race-horse; and yet electricity is quicker still.
Who acts: flight, electricity · What happens: fly, be
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight, electricity), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 million | compound |
| 4 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 flies | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 horse | amod |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 race | punct |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 quicker | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 quicker | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 electricity | advmod |
| 16 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quicker | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quicker | cop |
| 18 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 flies | conj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 quicker | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | flight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | electricity | still | quick 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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