Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 3
But there they are, and it is no delusion.
Who acts: creatures, glass · What happens: be · To what, where: delusion
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 (creatures, glass), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delusion | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delusion | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 delusion | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 delusion | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 delusion | det |
| 10 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 are | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | creatures = creature | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | glass | no delusion | 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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