Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 50
Certainly people who were only born yesterday know very little.
Who acts: people · What happens: bear, know · To what, where: people, little
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 know | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 born | advmod |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | people | yesterday | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | people | little | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=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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