The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 13
All this has been known to the wise and learned for centuries, and especially since the brothers Grimm wrote in the early years of the Nineteenth Century.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: know, learn, write · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wise | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 learned | cc |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 centuries | case |
| 12 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brothers | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brothers | cc |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 brothers | advmod |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brothers | det |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wrote | nsubj |
| 19 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wrote | nsubj |
| 20 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 23 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wrote | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Century | det |
| 27 | Nineteenth | Nineteenth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Century | compound |
| 28 | Century | Century | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 years | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | this | to the wise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | learn | participle | century | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | past | the brothers | year | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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