Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 52
The snakes are too large, and the lizards too lively for us to catch.
Who acts: snakes, lizards, us · What happens: be, catch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes, lizards, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snakes | det |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 large | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lively | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lively | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lizards | det |
| 9 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lively | nsubj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 lively | advmod |
| 11 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 large | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lively | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the snakes | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the lizards | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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