Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 9
The romance of the earth is, after all, the most wonderful of all romances.
Who acts: romance, earth · What happens: be, romance
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 (romance, earth), 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 romance | det |
| 2 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonderful | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 romance | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wonderful | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 wonderful | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wonderful | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 wonderful | advmod |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 romances | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 romances | det |
| 16 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wonderful | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the romance of the earth | of all romances; wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | romance | the earth | nom romance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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