Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 16
I know so much, at least, that the hare only ran from cowardice, and because he thought there was danger in delay.
Who acts: I, hare, danger · What happens: know, run, think, be · To what, where: much, least, cowardice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hare, danger), 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 know | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 ran | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 cowardice | case |
| 15 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 delay | case |
| 25 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 danger | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | much | least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | the hare | cowardice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cowardice=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | hare | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | danger in delay | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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