Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 148

"Ah!" said the learned man; "I am writing about the true, the beautiful, and the good; but no one cares to hear anything about it.

Who acts: learned man, one · What happens: say, learn, write, care, hear · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 writing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 writing	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 writing	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 writing	aux
13	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 true	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 true	det
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 writing	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beautiful	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beautiful	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 true	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 good	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 good	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 true	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 cares	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 cares	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cares	nsubj
28	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hear	mark
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cares	xcomp
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 hear	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 anything	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the learned man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write in a quote	present · progressive	the learned man = man		true property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	care in a quote	present	no one			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	no one not said here	anything	about weather	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/148/