Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 78
"He is not altogether a stranger, our young friend George."
Who acts: Count · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stranger | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stranger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stranger | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stranger | advmod |
| 5 | altogether | altogether | ADP | _ | 7 stranger | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stranger | conj |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stranger | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stranger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Count | altogether a stranger and our young friend | 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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