Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 52
"You are far better than your conversation," said the papa stork; "I know you better than you know yourself."
Who acts: You, better, your · What happens: be, say, know, converse · To what, where: papa stork, you, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, better, your), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 conversation | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stork | det |
| 13 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stork | compound |
| 14 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | obj |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 know | ccomp |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | advcl |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | than your conversation; far, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | better | the papa stork | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | better = good | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | converse in a quote | your | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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