Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 5
One must find out the truth concerning every created particle, and keep to that."
Who acts: One, truth · What happens: find out, concern, create, keep · To what, where: truth, created particle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, truth), 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 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 find | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 7 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 truth | acl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 particle | det |
| 9 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 particle | amod |
| 10 | particle | particle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concerning | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 keep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | must | One | the truth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the truth not said here | every created particle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus particle=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | create | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | One not said here | to that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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