Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 60
"Who should know better than I do?" said the animal, while his eyes sparkled. "
Who acts: animal, eyes · What happens: know, do, say, sparkle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, eyes), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 animal | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sparkled | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 sparkled | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sparkled | nsubj |
| 18 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | should | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the animal = animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sparkle | past | Spitzbergen's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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