Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 21

These were the critics who are always so clever afterwards.

Who acts: These, critics · What happens: be · To what, where: critics

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, critics), 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	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 critics	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 critics	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 critics	det
4	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 clever	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 clever	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 critics	advcl
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 critics	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	These	the critics					tree rules
2	is	present	the critics					afterwards, always, clever 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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