Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 18
The wise king Solomon was not half so wise as this man.
Who acts: wise king · What happens: not be · To what, where: half
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise king), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 half | nsubj |
| 4 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 half | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 half | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 half | advmod |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 wise | advmod |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 half | amod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wise | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 half | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the wise king | half | 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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