Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 24
All indifferent poets and poetesses, musicians, newspaper writers, and artistic notabilities,--I mean those who are no good,--ride in the New Year's night through the air to Amack.
Who acts: I · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: those
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 (I), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 poets | det |
| 2 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poets | amod |
| 3 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 poetesses | cc |
| 5 | poetesses | poetess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poets | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 musicians | punct |
| 7 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poets | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 writers | punct |
| 9 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writers | compound |
| 10 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 musicians | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 notabilities | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 notabilities | cc |
| 13 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 notabilities | amod |
| 14 | notabilities | notability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poets | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 notabilities | conj |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 mean | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 good | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | cop |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 good | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ride | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 ride | punct |
| 26 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 good | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Year | det |
| 29 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Year | compound |
| 30 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 night | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Year | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ride | nmod |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 air | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 air | det |
| 35 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ride | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Amack | case |
| 37 | Amack | Amack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 air | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | those | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ride in the New Year's night through the air to Amack obl; good 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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