Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 4
It would require even more than the eye of a shoemaker to know one pair from the other."
Who acts: side · What happens: require, know · To what, where: more, one pair, other
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 (side), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 require | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 require | aux |
| 3 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 require | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 eye | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shoemaker | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shoemaker | det |
| 11 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eye | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shoemaker | acl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pair | nummod |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pair | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 require | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | would | side | more | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | side not said here | one pair | the other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus |
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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