Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 43

The learned men are not at all clear about it.

Who acts: learned men · What happens: learn, not be · To what, where: all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned men), 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	3 men	det
2	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clear	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clear	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 clear	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 clear	obl
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clear	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	participle							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	the learned men			all		about thought; clear property	tree rules

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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