Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 28
Those that are most in favor are from the French, but they are not good for little girls.
Who acts: Those, others · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: French
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 (Those, others), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 French | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 most | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 1 Those | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 favor | case |
| 6 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Those | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 French | cop |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 French | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 French | det |
| 10 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 good | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 good | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 French | amod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 girls | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girls | amod |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 French | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | most property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Those | the French | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | others = other | for little girls; good property | 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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