Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 151
He was not as pale as dead men are, but black as a coal.
Who acts: legend, dead men · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, dead men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pale | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pale | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 pale | advmod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 are | mark |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 are | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 black | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 black | cc |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pale | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 coal | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coal | det |
| 15 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 black | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | legend | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | dead men | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | legend not said here | as a coal | 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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