Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 45
Truth is not always agreeable, but truth is above everything else, as the old owl said.
Who acts: Truth, old owl · What happens: not be, be, say · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (Truth, old owl), 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 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 agreeable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreeable | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 agreeable | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 agreeable | advmod |
| 5 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 everything | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 everything | cc |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 everything | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 everything | cop |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 everything | case |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 agreeable | conj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 everything | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 owl | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 owl | amod |
| 17 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreeable | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Truth | agreeable, always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | truth | everything | else property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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