Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 32
There are many who are more the poets of nature than those who are professed poets.
Who acts: many more poets · What happens: be, profess · To what, where: many more poets, poets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many more poets), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 poets | amod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 poets | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 poets | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 poets | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poets | det |
| 8 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poets | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 nature | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 professed | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 professed | aux:pass |
| 15 | professed | profess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 professed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the many more poets | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the many more poets | of nature than those | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | profess | present · passive | poets | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme poet=Attribute |
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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