Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 13
She was wiser than the doctor who drives in his own carriage and pays tax for his rank.
Who acts: gate, doctor · What happens: be, drive, pay · To what, where: own carriage, tax
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, doctor), 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 | 3 wiser | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wiser | cop |
| 3 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 doctor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doctor | det |
| 6 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wiser | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drives | nsubj |
| 8 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doctor | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 carriage | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carriage | amod |
| 12 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drives | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pays | cc |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drives | conj |
| 15 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 rank | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rank | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wiser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gate | than the doctor; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | the doctor | world's own carriage | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | the doctor not said here | tax | for world's rank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tax=Asset for rank=Theme |
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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