Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 7
All who went to the demon's school--for he kept a school--talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like.
Who acts: demon, wonders, world · What happens: go, keep, talk, see, declare, like · To what, where: school, wonders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, wonders, world), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 school | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 demon | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 kept | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 school | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 talked | punct |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 talked | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wonders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wonders | det |
| 20 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 talked | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wonders | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 declared | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 declared | cc |
| 26 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 could | mark |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 could | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 declared | advcl |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 could | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 time | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 declared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 declared | conj |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 like | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 like | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mankind | cc |
| 42 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 world | conj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 like | aux |
| 44 | really | really | ADV | _ | 45 like | advmod |
| 45 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 see | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the demon's school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | demon | a school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | of the wonders; everywhere property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | wonders = wonder | the wonders not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | like | past | the world and mankind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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