Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 97
The student was merry and gay, brave and affectionate; every drop of blood in him was good and honorable; a better man never lived on earth.
Who acts: student, drop, better man · What happens: be, not live · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, drop, better man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 student | det |
| 2 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 merry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | cop |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gay | cc |
| 6 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 merry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 merry | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 affectionate | cc |
| 10 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brave | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 drop | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 drop | det |
| 13 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 good | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drop | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drop | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 merry | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 honorable | cc |
| 21 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 lived | advmod |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 earth | case |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the student | merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the student not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | the student not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | every drop of blood in student | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | every drop of blood in student not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not live | past | a better man | earth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
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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