Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 29
There is plenty here to write poems about, and to tell of, for any one who knows the way.
Who acts: plenty, one · What happens: be, write, tell, know · To what, where: poems, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 is | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 write | mark |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | advcl |
| 7 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 write | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 write | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 write | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knows | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | plenty | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | poems | about property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | any one | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=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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