Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 1
There is nobody in the world who knows so many stories as Ole-Luk-Oie, or who can relate them so nicely.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: be, know, relate · To what, where: many stories, stories
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nobody | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stories | amod |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knows | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 Luk | case |
| 13 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Luk | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ole | punct |
| 15 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knows | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oie | punct |
| 17 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Luk | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 relate | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 relate | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 relate | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 relate | aux |
| 22 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knows | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 relate | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 nicely | advmod |
| 25 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 22 relate | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nobody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | many stories | as Ole Luk and Oie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus as luk=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | relate | can | stories = story | nicely property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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