Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 115
Do you consider yourself more clever than the cat, or the old woman?
Who acts: you · What happens: consider · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 consider | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 consider | nsubj |
| 3 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 consider | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 clever | advmod |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 consider | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clever | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 woman | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cat | appos |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present · do-support | you | yourself | clever property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute |
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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