Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 101
His stories were as strange as the legends of the priests of olden times.
Who acts: stories · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stories | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strange | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strange | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 strange | advmod |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 legends | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legends | det |
| 8 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strange | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 priests | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 priests | det |
| 11 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 legends | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 times | case |
| 13 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 times | amod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 priests | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aphtanides's stories | as the legends of the priests of olden times; strange 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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