Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 14
How highly the old times have been spoken of, but ours is better.
Who acts: ours · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: old times · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ours), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 highly | advmod |
| 2 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 8 spoken | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 times | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoken | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 spoken | aux:pass |
| 8 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spoken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 better | cc |
| 12 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 better | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 spoken | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the old times | highly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ours | good property | 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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