Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 34
Understanding must therefore be seen among us in the most prominent manner, and my wisdom is greater than all.'
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Understanding, prominent manner
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 (wisdom), 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 | Understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 prominent | advmod |
| 11 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 greater | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 greater | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greater | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 greater | cop |
| 18 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 seen | parataxis |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 greater | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | must · passive | Understanding | the prominent manner | among us; therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | my wisdom | than all; great property | 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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