Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 107
No people have such grand old customs as we Greeks."
Who acts: people · What happens: have · To what, where: such grand old customs
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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 customs | amod |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 customs | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 customs | amod |
| 7 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Greeks | case |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Greeks | nsubj |
| 10 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no people | such grand old customs | as Greeks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=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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