Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 18
The boy was at this time about six years old, and already knew a great many stories out of the Bible, and several religious psalms.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, know · To what, where: great many stories, Bible
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 six | advmod |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 knew | advmod |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stories | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 Bible | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Bible | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bible | det |
| 22 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 stories | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 psalms | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 psalms | cc |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 psalms | amod |
| 26 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 psalms | amod |
| 27 | psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | at this time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the boy not said here | a great many stories | the Bible | several religious psalms obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=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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