Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 220
But on this evening he learned more about her than he had yet known.
Who acts: man · What happens: learn, know · To what, where: more, man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 learned | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 learned | nsubj |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 learned | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 known | advmod |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 more | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | man | more | evening | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | past · perfect · passive | man | yet | 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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