Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 128
The second brother of course knew better how to build than poor Margaret, for he served an apprenticeship to learn it.
Who acts: second brother, Margaret · What happens: know, build, serve, learn · To what, where: apprenticeship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second brother, Margaret), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 knew | advmod |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 build | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 build | mark |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 Margaret | case |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Margaret | amod |
| 13 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 served | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 served | nsubj |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 apprenticeship | det |
| 19 | apprenticeship | apprenticeship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 learn | mark |
| 21 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 served | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 learn | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the second brother of course | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | than poor Margaret | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | Margaret | a apprenticeship | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apprenticeship=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | Margaret not said here | apprenticeship | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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