Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 39

No one could tell whether it was a mountain covered with forests and full of caves, or whether it had been built.

Who acts: one · What happens: tell, cover, build · To what, where: lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 covered	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 covered	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	nsubj:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tell	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 forests	case
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 full	cc
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 covered	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 caves	case
16	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 built	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 built	cc
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 built	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 built	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 built	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 built	aux:pass
23	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tell	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	no one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cover	past · passive		lake	with forests	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme
3	build	past · perfect · passive		lake		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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