Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 15
I knew that, for the two other qualifications are not thought much of; so I went first to seek for understanding.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, not think, go, seek · To what, where: that, two other qualifications
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 qualifications | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 qualifications | nummod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 qualifications | amod |
| 9 | qualifications | qualification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 thought | advmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 much | fixed |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seek | mark |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 understanding | case |
| 23 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | present · passive | the two other qualifications | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme much=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | go | past | I | first property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | I not said here | for understanding | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for understanding=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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