Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 33
These two qualities,' she continued, 'place us ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings.
Who acts: two qualities · What happens: continue · To what, where: place ants
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 (two qualities), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 qualities | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 qualities | nummod |
| 3 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 qualities | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 qualities | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ants | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ants | compound |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod |
| 12 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 continued | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 degree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 degree | det |
| 15 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 degree | amod |
| 16 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ants | nmod |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 beings | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 beings | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beings | amod |
| 20 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beings | amod |
| 21 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 degree | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | this two qualities | place ants in the highest degree above all other reasonable beings | 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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