Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 16
"That is all very well, but such tales or stories are worth nothing!
Who acts: That, such tales · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, such tales), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 stories | cc |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tales | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothing | amod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 well | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | such tales or stories | nothing | 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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