Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 1

Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters; before that, every European book was copied by hand, like writing out a whole Harry Potter book with a pen.

Who acts: Johannes, hand · What happens: build, copy, write out · To what, where: printing press, 1450, European book, that, whole Potter book

This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johannes, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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