Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 29
In the meantime, we may take one of the prettiest, for inside they're all very much alike.
Who acts: we, others · What happens: take, be · To what, where: one, meantime
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 (we, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prettiest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prettiest | det |
| 11 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 alike | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 alike | mark |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 alike | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 alike | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 alike | cop |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 alike | advmod |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 alike | advmod |
| 20 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 take | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | may | we | one of the prettiest | the meantime | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in meantime=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | others = other | alike, all 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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