Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 181
It is an ugly name, and you are so very pretty.
Who acts: gift, you · What happens: be · To what, where: ugly name
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 (gift, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretty | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pretty | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pretty | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pretty | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 pretty | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 pretty | advmod |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 name | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gift | a ugly name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | pretty property | 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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