Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 22
When this story was circulated all over the world, the opinions upon it were divided; but the story remained the same.
Who acts: story · What happens: circulate, divide, remain · To what, where: story, world, opinions, same
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 circulated | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 circulated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 circulated | aux:pass |
| 5 | circulated | circulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 remained | parataxis |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 world | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 circulated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 divided | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opinions | det |
| 12 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opinions | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 divided | aux:pass |
| 16 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 circulated | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 remained | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remained | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circulate | past · passive | this story | the world | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide | past · passive | the opinions upon world | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | the story | the same | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
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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