Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 30
They are not taller than I am: indeed, one is much less; and why are the branches not cut off?
Who acts: branches · What happens: not be, be, not cut off · To what, where: branches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taller | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taller | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 taller | advmod |
| 4 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 am | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taller | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 indeed | punct |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 taller | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taller | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 taller | obl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taller | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 less | advmod |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 is | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 cut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cut | cc |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 branches | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 branches | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 cut | advmod |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taller | advcl |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 cut | compound:prt |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | branches = branch | one obl; indeed, tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | branches = branch not said here | less property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the branches | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not cut off | participle · passive | the branches | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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