Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 8

She is only four years old, but can say her prayers as well as any of the rest.

Who acts: shoulder · What happens: be, say, pray · To what, where: prayers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoulder), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 prayers	nmod:poss
12	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obj
13	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 say	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 as	fixed
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 any	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 say	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 any	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	shoulder		year	old property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	can	shoulder not said here	shoulder's prayers		as any	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	pray		shoulder				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/123/8/