Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 20
One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders.
Who acts: One · What happens: feel · To what, where: novice, venerable old boulders
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 novice | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 novice | det |
| 5 | novice | novice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 boulders | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 boulders | det |
| 8 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boulders | amod |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 year | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 million | punct |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 year | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boulders | amod |
| 14 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feels | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | One | quite novice | this venerable old boulders | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent novice=Theme beside boulder=Location |
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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