Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 48
"Our ball can compare favourably with the king's," he said, and turned with contempt towards the gazing crowd in the street.
Who acts: ball, footman · What happens: compare, say, turn, gaze · To what, where: gazing crowd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, footman), 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 | _ | 5 compare | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ball | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compare | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 compare | aux |
| 5 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | favourably | favourably | ADV | _ | 5 compare | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compare | obl |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 compare | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 compare | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 contempt | case |
| 19 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 crowd | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crowd | det |
| 22 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 crowd | amod |
| 23 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 street | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 street | det |
| 26 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crowd | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare in a quote | can | Our ball | with the king; favourably property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | footman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | footman not said here | the gazing crowd in the street | with contempt | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards crowd=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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