Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 78
"What a number of different creatures there are that I never knew! and how beautiful and great the world is!
Who acts: little Toad, world · What happens: not know, be
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 (little Toad, world), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 number | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 number | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 creatures | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creatures | amod |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 are | obl |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 number | acl:relcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 knew | advmod |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 are | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 great | cc |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beautiful | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past | the little Toad = toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the world | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | the world not said here | 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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