Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 4
It is a good thing that many of us sit on the roost together."
Who acts: roost, many · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: good thing, roost
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roost, many), 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 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sit | obj |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 many | nmod |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roost | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roost | det |
| 13 | roost | roost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 sit | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | roost | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | many of us | a good thing | the roost | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent that=Theme on roost=Location |
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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