Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 96
We have a great many advantages over mankind."
Who acts: We · What happens: have · To what, where: great many advantages, mankind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 advantages | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 advantages | amod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 advantages | amod |
| 6 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mankind | case |
| 8 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advantages | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | a great many advantages | mankind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient |
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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