Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 223
The world knew not which was the true, and indeed how should the world know?
Who acts: world · What happens: not know, be, know · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (world), 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 | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 true | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 true | det |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 know | advmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | should | the world | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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