Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 21
All they do is like the working of a sum in arithmetic, which comes right. '
Who acts: people, All, working · What happens: do, be, come
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 (people, All, working), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 working | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 working | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 working | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 working | det |
| 7 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sum | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sum | det |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 arithmetic | case |
| 12 | arithmetic | arithmetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sum | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 working | conj |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 working | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | like the working; of a sum in arithmetic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the working | right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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