Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 89
All parents are glad to have a little child, and children are so pleased with a little brother or sister.
Who acts: parents, children · What happens: be, have · To what, where: little child
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, children), 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 | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleased | cc |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glad | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 brother | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pleased | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sister | cc |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all parents | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | all parents not said here | a little child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | children | with a little brother or sister; pleased 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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