Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 12
The old white snails were the most aristocratic race in the world,--they knew that.
Who acts: old white snails, snails · What happens: be, know · To what, where: aristocratic race, world, that
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 (old white snails, snails), 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 snails | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snails | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snails | amod |
| 4 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 race | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 aristocratic | advmod |
| 8 | aristocratic | aristocratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 race | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 knew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 race | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old white snails | the aristocratic race | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | snails = snail | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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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