Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 98
It is a fine thing after all to travel in families, not like the finches and the partridges.
Who acts: swan · What happens: be, travel, not like · To what, where: fine thing, families, finches
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 (swan), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 thing | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 travel | mark |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 families | case |
| 11 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 travel | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 travel | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 finches | det |
| 16 | finches | finch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 like | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 partridges | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 partridges | det |
| 19 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 finches | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | swan | a fine thing | after all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | families | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | not like | infinitive | the finches and the partridges | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot finch=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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