Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 3

To-day I read about it in the papers, but there it was not half so clearly expressed.

Who acts: I · What happens: read, express · To what, where: papers, matter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 papers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 papers	det
10	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expressed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 expressed	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 expressed	expl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 expressed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 expressed	aux:pass
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 half	advmod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 was	nsubj
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 expressed	advmod
19	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	20 expressed	advmod
20	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 read	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	I			the papers	day	about matter	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	express	past · passive		matter		there		clearly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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