Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 191
You, as a learned man, certainly know how strange nature is.
Who acts: You · What happens: learn, be, know · To what, where: strange nature
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 strange | advmod |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nature | amod |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | You | as a learned man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | infinitive | You not said here | strange nature | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nature=Stimulus |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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