Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 154
What a great man that is yonder! and how high he sits!
Who acts: great man · What happens: be, sit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great man), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 man | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sits | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 yonder | cop |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 13 sits | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 yonder | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 high | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 yonder | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sits | nsubj |
| 13 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | yonder property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | what great man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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