Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 20
That is the most beautiful coat of arms in the world," said the old man. "
Who acts: That, old man · What happens: be, say · To what, where: beautiful coat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, old 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 coat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coat | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coat | amod |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coat | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arms | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coat | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 coat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the beautiful coat | of arms in the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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