Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 10
No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it."
Who acts: power · What happens: equal, exceed · To what, where: mine, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 power | det |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 equal | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 power | nmod |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 equal | aux |
| 6 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 equal | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exceed | punct |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 less | advmod |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 exceed | advmod |
| 11 | exceed | exceed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 equal | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exceed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 equal | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equal | must | no power on earth | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exceed | infinitive | earth | less property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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