Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 114
They all belong to our family, but they are not nearly so handsome as we are.
Who acts: cranes, we · What happens: belong, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cranes, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 belong | advmod |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belong | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 handsome | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 handsome | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handsome | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 handsome | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 so | advmod |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 so | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 handsome | advmod |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 belong | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 handsome | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | cranes = crane | to our family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cranes = crane | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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