Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 72
But there are people who are not men of snow, who understand what it is. "'
Who acts: people, men, sensation · What happens: be, not be, understand · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, men, sensation), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 men | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 men | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 men | advmod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 understand | nsubj |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 men | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 is | obj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 understand | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | people | men | of snow | tree rules | |||
| 3 | understand | present | men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | present | sensation | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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