Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 1
The largest green leaf in this country is certainly the burdock-leaf.
Who acts: largest green leaf · What happens: be · To what, where: burdock leaf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (largest green leaf), 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 | 4 leaf | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaf | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 leaf | cop |
| 9 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 leaf | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaf | det |
| 11 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaf | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 burdock | punct |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the largest green leaf in this country | the burdock leaf | certainly 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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