Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 8
Each has his own characteristic, whether it is honor or courage."
Who acts: Each, characteristic · What happens: have, be · To what, where: own characteristic, honor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, characteristic), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 characteristic | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 characteristic | amod |
| 5 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honor | punct |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 honor | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 honor | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 honor | cop |
| 10 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characteristic | appos |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 courage | cc |
| 12 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honor | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Each | Rudy's own characteristic | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | characteristic | honor or courage | 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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