Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 11
Do you know of anything prettier than we are, you old willow-tree?"
Who acts: you, we · What happens: know, be, tree
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 (you, we), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 know | obl |
| 6 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 anything | amod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 are | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 are | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prettier | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tree | nsubj |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 13 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 willow | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | of anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tree | you | 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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