Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 27
They did not reach higher than my knee; they looked like human beings, but were better proportioned, and they called themselves elves.
Who acts: people · What happens: not reach, look, be, call · To what, where: higher, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reach | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reach | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 reach | advmod |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 reach | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 knee | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knee | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 higher | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reach | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 beings | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beings | amod |
| 14 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 better | cc |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | cop |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 looked | parataxis |
| 19 | proportioned | proportion | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 better | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 called | obj |
| 25 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | past · do-support | people | higher | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent high=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | people | like human beings | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | past | people | people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
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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