Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 14

It is the pen that writes: no man doubts that; and, indeed, most people understand as much about poetry as an old inkstand."

Who acts: fluid, pen, man, most people · What happens: be, write, doubt, understand · To what, where: pen, that, much

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fluid, pen, man, most people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pen	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pen	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pen	det
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 writes	nsubj
6	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pen	acl:relcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 doubts	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doubts	nsubj
10	doubts	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pen	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 doubts	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 understand	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 understand	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 understand	nsubj
19	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 doubts	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 understand	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 poetry	case
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 inkstand	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 inkstand	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 inkstand	amod
27	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pen	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fluid	the pen		tree rules
2	write	present	the pen			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	doubt	present	no man	that		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	understand	present	most people	much	about poetry; as a old inkstand; indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as inkstand=Attribute

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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