Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 12
He certainly saw her being married to a stranger, but that was all in the play, and only a pretence; Knud well knew that.
Who acts: Knud, that · What happens: see, marry, be, know · To what, where: wife, play, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stranger | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 play | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 play | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 play | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 play | cop |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 play | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 play | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 play | det |
| 17 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pretence | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pretence | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 pretence | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pretence | det |
| 22 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 play | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 knew | advmod |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 knew | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Knud | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | marry | gerund · passive | wife | to a stranger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to stranger=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | the play and a pretence | all property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | past | Knud | that | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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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