Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 4
I have neither swallowed it, nor learnt it from conversing with owls.
Who acts: I · What happens: swallow, learn, converse · To what, where: One
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 (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 | 4 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallowed | aux |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 swallowed | advmod |
| 4 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 learnt | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 learnt | cc |
| 8 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallowed | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 learnt | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 conversing | mark |
| 11 | conversing | converse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 learnt | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 owls | case |
| 13 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conversing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present · perfect | I | One | neither property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | learn | past | I not said here | One | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | converse speech: other | gerund | I not said here | with owls | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with owl=Co-Agent |
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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