Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 8
The verses might be better, to be sure; the thoughts are sound, though there is certainly a good deal of common-place among them.
Who acts: verses, thoughts, good deal · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: sound, common place
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 (verses, thoughts, good deal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 verses | det |
| 2 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sure | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 better | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sound | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thoughts | det |
| 12 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sound | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sound | cop |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | parataxis |
| 19 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 22 deal | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 deal | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deal | amod |
| 22 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 24 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 common | punct |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deal | nmod |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | the verses | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the verses not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the thoughts | sound | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | a good deal of common place among thoughts | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deal | common place among thoughts | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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