Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 20
"This is a lovely rose," said the wise man; "but there is one still more lovely."
Who acts: This, lovely rose · What happens: be, say · To what, where: lovely rose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, lovely rose), 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 | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | amod |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lovely | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 is | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lovely | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 is | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 lovely | advmod |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 lovely | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a lovely rose | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a lovely rose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | lovely 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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