Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 59
It is worth much to know that one of the numbers is a man of talent in the thing men call a 'committee.'
Who acts: racing, one, thing men · What happens: be, know, call · To what, where: man, committee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (racing, one, thing men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 much | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 much | amod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 man | mark |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 man | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 numbers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 numbers | det |
| 11 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 talent | case |
| 16 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 call | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 men | compound |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 call | nsubj |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 committee | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 committee | punct |
| 24 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | racing | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | one of the numbers | a man | of talent | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call | present | the thing men | a committee | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent committee=Recipient |
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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