Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 14
There is really nothing in the world that can be compared to red shoes!
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, compare
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 compared | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 compared | aux:pass |
| 11 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shoes | case |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shoes | amod |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 compared | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compare | can · passive | to red shoes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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