Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 27
Compared to this seat, all the learning of the schools is as empty air.
What happens: compare
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. 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 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 seat | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seat | det |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compared | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 learning | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 learning | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 learning | det |
| 8 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 schools | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 schools | det |
| 11 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learning | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Compared | aux:pass |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present · passive | to this seat and all learning of the schools; as empty air | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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