Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 8
Of course the traveller knew this from what the magician in the mountain had said.
Who acts: magician · What happens: know, say · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 traveller | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 traveller | det |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 knew | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knew | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 magician | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | this | of the traveller | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the magician in the mountain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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