Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 38
That's Paris, or some other great city, for they're all alike.
Who acts: That, some, people · What happens: be, city · To what, where: Paris
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 (That, some, people), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Paris | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Paris | cop |
| 3 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 city | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 city | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 city | nsubj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Paris | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 alike | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 alike | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alike | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 alike | cop |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 alike | advmod |
| 15 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Paris | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | Paris | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | city | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | people | alike, all 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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