Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 88
Nobility is a distinction; it is a gold coin that bears the stamp of its own value.
Who acts: Nobility · What happens: be, value · To what, where: distinction, gold coin
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 (Nobility), 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 | Nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distinction | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 distinction | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 distinction | det |
| 4 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 coin | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 coin | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coin | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coin | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coin | compound |
| 10 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distinction | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bears | obj |
| 12 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coin | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stamp | det |
| 14 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 value | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 value | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 value | amod |
| 18 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stamp | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distinction | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nobility | a distinction | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Nobility | a gold coin and bears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | value | Nobility | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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