Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 109
"And is not our play just as good as those which the others have in the real theatre?"
Who acts: play, others, our · What happens: be, have, play · To what, where: real theatre
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, others, our), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 good | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 play | advmod |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 play | nmod:poss |
| 6 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 good | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 good | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 have | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 theatre | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 theatre | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 theatre | amod |
| 19 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | our play | as those; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the others | the real theatre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | our | nom play «communication 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.
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