Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 51
What does 'the beautiful' mean?"
Who acts: beautiful · What happens: mean
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 (beautiful), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beautiful | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | the beautiful | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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