Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 73
No one on earth has such a lovely voice as theirs.
Who acts: one · What happens: have · To what, where: lovely voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 voice | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 theirs | case |
| 11 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no one on earth | such lovely voice | as walls = wall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
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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