Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 12
They are all clever at making a bargain.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, make · To what, where: bargain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 clever | advmod |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 clever | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bargain | det |
| 8 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | children = child | all, clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | children = child not said here | a bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product |
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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