Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 19
I know a quill pen as well as I know a steel one.
Who acts: I · What happens: know · To what, where: quill pen, steel one
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pen | det |
| 4 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 5 pen | compound |
| 5 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 2 know | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | compound |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a quill pen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | a steel one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=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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