Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 20
The ants are a very respectable people, they are wisdom itself.
Who acts: ants, people · What happens: be · To what, where: respectable people, wisdom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ants, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ants | det |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 respectable | advmod |
| 6 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wisdom | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wisdom | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wisdom | cop |
| 11 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nmod |
| 12 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 wisdom | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ants | a respectable people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | people | wisdom | ant nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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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