Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 153
He must be wicked who does not consider our country the finest of all lands.
Who acts: pit · What happens: be, not consider · To what, where: country
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 (pit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wicked | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wicked | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wicked | cop |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 consider | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 consider | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 consider | advmod |
| 8 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wicked | ccomp |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 consider | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 finest | det |
| 12 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 consider | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 lands | det |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 finest | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | pit | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not consider | present · do-support | our country | fine property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent country=Attribute |
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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