Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 1
In China, you know, the emperor is a Chinese, and all those about him are Chinamen also.
Who acts: you, emperor · What happens: know, be · To what, where: China, Chinamen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, emperor), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 China | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Chinese | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Chinese | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Chinese | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Chinese | det |
| 11 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chinamen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Chinamen | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 those | det:predet |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 Chinamen | det |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 those | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Chinamen | cop |
| 19 | Chinamen | Chinamen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chinese | conj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 Chinamen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chinese | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | China | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the emperor | chinese property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the emperor not said here | that Chinamen | tree rules |
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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