Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 54
Yes, these are children's children, and they are strong and healthy.
Who acts: children · What happens: be
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 (children), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 strong | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 children | det |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | cop |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strong | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strong | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strong | cop |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 healthy | cc |
| 14 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strong | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 's this children | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | children = child | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | children = child not said here | 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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