Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 10
I am as valuable as any other corn," said he, "and I am much handsomer; my flowers are as beautiful as the bloom of the apple blossom, and it is a pleasure to look at us.
Who acts: I, sparrow, flowers, apple blossom · What happens: be, say, look, bloom · To what, where: pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sparrow, flowers, apple blossom), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 valuable | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 valuable | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 valuable | advmod |
| 4 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 corn | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 corn | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corn | amod |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 valuable | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 valuable | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handsomer | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 handsomer | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 handsomer | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 handsomer | advmod |
| 19 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 he | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beautiful | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | cop |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 valuable | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 bloom | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bloom | det |
| 28 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beautiful | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 blossom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blossom | det |
| 31 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 blossom | compound |
| 32 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bloom | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pleasure | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pleasure | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 pleasure | expl |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 pleasure | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pleasure | det |
| 38 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 valuable | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 look | mark |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 pleasure | acl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 us | case |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 look | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | as any other corn; valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the sparrow = sparrow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | my flowers | as the bloom of the apple blossom; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | I not said here | a pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | at us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bloom | the apple blossom | nom bloom «process 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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