Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 26
"Look! look! his leg is longer than mine!
Who acts: you, leg · What happens: look, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, leg), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | advcl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longer | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 longer | cop |
| 9 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 look | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 mine | case |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 longer | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | magician's leg | than Kribble; long 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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