Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 210

But has he well-grounded knowledge? that is an important question, and I must try him."

Who acts: prince, that, I · What happens: ground, be, try · To what, where: knowledge, important question, prince

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 (prince, that, I), 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 grounded	cc
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grounded	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grounded	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 grounded	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	grounded	ground	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grounded	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grounded	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 question	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 question	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 question	det
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 question	amod
13	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grounded	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 try	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 try	aux
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grounded	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 try	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grounded	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ground	present · perfect	prince	knowledge	well property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
2	is a	present	that	a important question		tree rules
3	try	must	I	prince		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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/pg27200/165/210/