Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 6
No one could surpass him in depth of feeling or in readiness of intellect.
Who acts: one · What happens: surpass · To what, where: public
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surpass | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 surpass | aux |
| 4 | surpass | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surpass | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 depth | case |
| 7 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surpass | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feeling | case |
| 9 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depth | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 readiness | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 readiness | case |
| 12 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feeling | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 intellect | case |
| 14 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 readiness | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surpass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surpass | could | no one | public | in depth of feeling or readiness of intellect | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in depth=Attribute |
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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