Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 87
It is a splendid thing to belong to a noble family, whose name serves as a card of admission to the highest circles.
Who acts: conversation, name · What happens: be, belong, serve · To what, where: splendid thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, name), 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 | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 belong | mark |
| 7 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 10 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 family | amod |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belong | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 serves | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serves | nsubj |
| 15 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 card | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 card | det |
| 18 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serves | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 admission | case |
| 20 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 card | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 circles | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 circles | det |
| 23 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 circles | amod |
| 24 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 serves | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | conversation | a splendid thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | to-infinitive | to a noble family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | serve | present | name | as a card of admission; to the highest circles | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as card=Attribute |
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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