Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 4
The word alone Gerda understood very well, and knew how much it expressed.
Who acts: word, world · What happens: understand, know, express · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 word | advmod |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 understood | nsubj |
| 5 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 understood | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understood | parataxis |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 expressed | obj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 expressed | nsubj |
| 14 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the word | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | express | past | world | much | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Reflexive |
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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