Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 95
There are many in a town far above a master builder in position.
Who acts: master builder · What happens: be · To what, where: many
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master builder), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 are | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 builder | advmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 builder | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 builder | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 builder | compound |
| 11 | builder | builder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 position | case |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 builder | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a master builder in position | many | there | in a town | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot many=Theme in town=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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