Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 115
There are many distinguished persons of that kind, and it's no fault of his."
Who acts: many distinguished persons, person · What happens: be · To what, where: fault
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many distinguished persons, person), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fault | advcl |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 persons | amod |
| 4 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 persons | amod |
| 5 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 persons | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fault | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fault | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 fault | det |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 his | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fault | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | many distinguished persons of that kind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | person | no fault | 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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