Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 96
"Ours are better," said the old fisherman, Jurgen's foster-father; "these have no strength."
Who acts: Ours, better, these · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: old fisherman, strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ours, better, these), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | Ours | Our | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fisherman | amod |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 father | punct |
| 12 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Jurgen | case |
| 14 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 foster | punct |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fisherman | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 strength | det |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Ours | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | better | the old fisherman and Jurgen's foster father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | these | no strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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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