Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 230
One is as good as another, each in his own way, and I in mine.
Who acts: One · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 another | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 good | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 each | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 good | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 each | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mine | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mine | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 mine | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mine | case |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 good | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | as another; each obl; good property | 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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