Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 212
"Great and good are the actions done By many whose worth is never known."
What happens: be, do, not know · To what, where: Great actions
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 known | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 actions | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 good | cc |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Great | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 actions | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 actions | det |
| 7 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 known | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 actions | acl |
| 9 | By | by | ADP | _ | 12 worth | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 worth | amod |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 worth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 known | aux:pass |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 known | advmod |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 known | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Great actions | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | participle | the Great actions not said here | by many worth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · passive | the Great actions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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