Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 20
Something, it appears, may be learnt from books."
Who acts: it · What happens: appear, learn · To what, where: Something, books
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Something | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 learnt | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learnt | aux:pass |
| 8 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 books | case |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learnt | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learnt | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn | may · passive | Something | books | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from book=Source |
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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