Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 192
It's a grand place, but there's not much to eat.
Who acts: greeting, much · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: grand place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greeting, much), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 place | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 's | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 's | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 's | expl |
| 9 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 's | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 much | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | greeting | a grand place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | much | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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