Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 44
There is a difference between plants, just as there is a difference between men."
Who acts: difference · What happens: be · To what, where: difference
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 difference | det |
| 4 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 plants | case |
| 6 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 difference | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 difference | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 difference | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 difference | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 difference | det |
| 13 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 difference | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 difference | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 difference | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a difference between plants | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a difference | between men | 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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