Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 59
All this was circumstantially explained; but it is enough for us to know that Jurgen was set free.
Who acts: money, us · What happens: explain, be, know, set · To what, where: this, Jurgen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, us), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 explained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explained | aux:pass |
| 4 | circumstantially | circumstantially | ADV | _ | 5 explained | advmod |
| 5 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 enough | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 enough | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enough | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 enough | cop |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 explained | conj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enough | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 set | mark |
| 16 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux:pass |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past · passive | this | circumstantially property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | money | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | Jurgen | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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