Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 40
France was so great and so glorious, but she could only look across a little piece of it.
Who acts: France · What happens: be, look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France), 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 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 great | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 great | advmod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glorious | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 glorious | advmod |
| 7 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 look | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 look | advmod |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 great | conj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 piece | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | France | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | France not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | could | France | across a little piece of piece | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across piece=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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