Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 119
But you are a chatterer, and your company is not very agreeable.
Who acts: you, company · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: chatterer
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, company), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 chatterer | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 chatterer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chatterer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chatterer | det |
| 5 | chatterer | chatterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 agreeable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 agreeable | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 company | nmod:poss |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 agreeable | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 agreeable | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 agreeable | advmod |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 agreeable | advmod |
| 13 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chatterer | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chatterer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a chatterer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | your company | agreeable property | 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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