Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 172
There are some of them of the dog species, but those are not worth mentioning.
Who acts: some, those · What happens: be, not be, mention
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, those), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 some | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 species | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 species | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 species | compound |
| 9 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worth | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 worth | cc |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 worth | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 worth | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 worth | advmod |
| 15 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 are | parataxis |
| 16 | mentioning | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 worth | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | some | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | those | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | gerund | those not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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