Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 11
She is the loveliest maiden on the whole earth."
Who acts: bride · What happens: be · To what, where: loveliest maiden, whole earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 maiden | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earth | amod |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maiden | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bride | the loveliest maiden | the whole earth | 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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