Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 77
"He is very rich and learned, and his house is twenty times larger than mine," said the field-mouse.
Who acts: neighbor, house, field mouse · What happens: be, learn, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (neighbor, house, field mouse), 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 | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learned | cc |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 larger | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 larger | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 larger | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 larger | cop |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 larger | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 learned | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 mine | case |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 larger | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mouse | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mouse | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 field | punct |
| 24 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | neighbor | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | past | neighbor not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | neighbor's house | time | than the field mouse = mouse; large property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the field mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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