Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 35
How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.
Who acts: us, that · What happens: do, know, be · To what, where: wisest, us
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 (us, that), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wisest | det |
| 5 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 important | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 important | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 important | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 important | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 important | advmod |
| 14 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 important | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the wisest | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wise=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | know | present | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | us | important 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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