Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 21
There has been really more done for us than for any other creature; it is quite plain that we are the most noble people in the world.
Who acts: creature, we · What happens: have, be · To what, where: noble people, world
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 (creature, we), 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 has | expl |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 done | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 creature | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 creature | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 creature | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 plain | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plain | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plain | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 plain | advmod |
| 18 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 people | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 people | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 people | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 noble | advmod |
| 24 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plain | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | for us; than any other creature; done property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | creature | plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | we | the noble people | the world | 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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