Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 78
All this Knud saw at a glance, and yet, in truth, he saw nothing but Joanna.
Who acts: Knud, wall · What happens: see · To what, where: glance, nothing
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, wall), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Knud | det |
| 3 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 glance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glance | det |
| 7 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yet | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yet | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 truth | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 truth | case |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 Joanna | cc |
| 19 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | this Knud | a glance | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | past | wall | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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