Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 24
The cow was as beautiful a creature as any cow could be.
Who acts: cow, creature · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 beautiful | case |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 be | nsubj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 cow | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cow | det |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creature | nmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beautiful | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cow | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | can | could | a creature as any cow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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