Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 16
Nothing worse in poetry than mediocrity, and he certainly does not go beyond this.'
Who acts: hack · What happens: not go · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hack), 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 | 2 worse | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 poetry | case |
| 4 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worse | obl |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 mediocrity | case |
| 6 | mediocrity | mediocrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poetry | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 10 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 worse | conj |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worse | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · do-support | hack | this | certainly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond this=Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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