Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 43
Knud, on the contrary, had not a note of music in him, but knew the words of the songs, and that of course is something.
Who acts: Knud, that · What happens: have, know, be, note, word · To what, where: note, words, something, music, songs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, that), 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 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 contrary | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 contrary | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 contrary | det |
| 5 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knud | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knud | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 note | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 note | det |
| 10 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 music | case |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 note | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 music | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knew | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 songs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 songs | det |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 words | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 something | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 something | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 something | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 course | case |
| 27 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 that | nmod |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 something | cop |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 had | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Knud | a note of music in maiden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the words of the songs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | something | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | note | music in maiden | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | word | the songs | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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