Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 21
Only he and I know what was written on this his first letter from his lady-love.
Who acts: man · What happens: know, write, letter, love · To what, where: first letter, lady love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 written | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 letter | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 letter | nsubj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 letter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 letter | amod |
| 13 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 written | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 love | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lady | punct |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 letter | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | man's first letter from man's lady love | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on letter=Destination | |||||
| 3 | letter | man | man's lady love | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent from=place | |||||
| 4 | love | man | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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