Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 10

She certainly had not much to tell of the things up above, but she knew this, and all the Frogs knew it, that the well was not all the world.

Who acts: Mother, Frogs, well · What happens: have, tell up, know, not be · To what, where: much, this, pain, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Frogs, well), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 much	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 things	det
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	obl
11	up	up	ADP	_	7 tell	compound:prt
12	above	above	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 knew	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 Frogs	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Frogs	det
22	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 world	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 world	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 well	det
28	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 world	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 world	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 world	advmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 world	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mother	much	certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	tell up speech: assert	to-infinitive			of the things; above property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	Mother	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
4	know	past	all Frogs	pain		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	not is a	past	the well	all world		tree rules

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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