Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 9
They are considered supernatural beings, I know, and yet I am quite natural.
Who acts: I · What happens: consider, know, be · To what, where: birds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | aux:pass |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beings | amod |
| 5 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 natural | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 natural | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 natural | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 natural | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 natural | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 natural | advmod |
| 15 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 considered | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present · passive | birds = bird | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | yet | natural 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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