Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 36
They meant the stars, but they knew no better.
Who acts: holes · What happens: mean, know · To what, where: stars, better
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 meant | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meant | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 better | advmod |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | holes = hole | the stars | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past | holes = hole | better | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=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: «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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