Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 140
He is a very handsome mole; the queen herself does not wear more beautiful velvets and furs.
Who acts: Nonsense, queen · What happens: be, not wear · To what, where: handsome mole, beautiful velvets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense, queen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mole | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mole | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mole | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 handsome | advmod |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mole | amod |
| 6 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wear | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wear | nsubj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 queen | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wear | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wear | advmod |
| 13 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mole | parataxis |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 velvets | amod |
| 16 | velvets | velvet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wear | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 furs | cc |
| 18 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 velvets | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nonsense | a handsome mole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wear | present · do-support | the queen queen | beautiful velvets and furs | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent velvet=Source |
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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