Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 7

Great ones, first, of course," said he, "and then the little ones; but size is not always a proof of greatness."

Who acts: Great ones, size · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: proof · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great ones, size), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 first	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 ones	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 course	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 course	case
7	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ones	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ones	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ones	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ones	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 ones	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ones	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ones	amod
18	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 he	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 proof	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 proof	cc
21	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proof	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 proof	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 proof	advmod
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 proof	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 proof	det
26	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 greatness	case
28	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proof	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 proof	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 proof	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Great ones of course						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a	present	size	a proof				of greatness; always 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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