Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 98
* A Danish mile is nearly 4 3/4 English.
Who acts: Danish mile · What happens: be · To what, where: 3/4 English
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 (Danish mile), 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 | _ | 9 English | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mile | det |
| 3 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mile | amod |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 English | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 English | cop |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 3/4 | advmod |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 3/4 | compound |
| 8 | 3/4 | 3/4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 English | nummod |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 English | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Danish mile | 3/4 English | 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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