Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 33
Correctly speaking, you are but a youngster in the world.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: youngster, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 2 speaking | advmod |
| 2 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 youngster | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaking | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 youngster | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 youngster | cop |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 youngster | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 youngster | det |
| 8 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 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 youngster | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 youngster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | you not said here | correctly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a youngster | the world | 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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