Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 16
Moliere is named, the learned men talk of the classic school of remote antiquity.
Who acts: learned men · What happens: name, learn, talk · To what, where: Moliere
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned men), 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 | Moliere | moliere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 talk | nsubj |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 school | det |
| 11 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 school | amod |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 antiquity | case |
| 14 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 antiquity | amod |
| 15 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 school | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | Moliere | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | talk | present | the learned men | of the classic school of remote antiquity | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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