Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 52
The church itself is very beautiful, even more beautiful than the marble cathedral at Florence, though not so large.
Who acts: church · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church), 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 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 church | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beautiful | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 cathedral | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cathedral | det |
| 13 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cathedral | amod |
| 14 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beautiful | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Florence | case |
| 16 | Florence | Florence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cathedral | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 large | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 large | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 large | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 large | advmod |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beautiful | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the church church | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the church church not said here | than the marble cathedral at Florence | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not be | the church church not said here | 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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