Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 53
They should leave these things to us; we are created so much more clever than they are."
Who acts: rules · What happens: leave, create, be · To what, where: things, us, we
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rules), 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 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 created | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 created | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 created | aux:pass |
| 11 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 clever | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 clever | advmod |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 created | conj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 are | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 clever | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | should | rules = rule | this things | us | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to we=Recipient | |||
| 2 | create | present · passive | we | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | does | present | rules = rule | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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