Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 3

They wrote with diamond pencils on gold slates, and learnt their lessons so quickly and read so easily that every one might know they were princes.

Who acts: brothers, one · What happens: write, learn, read, know, be · To what, where: lessons, princes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (brothers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 pencils	case
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pencils	compound
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 slates	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slates	compound
8	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pencils	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learnt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 learnt	cc
11	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lessons	nmod:poss
13	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 learnt	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 quickly	advmod
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 learnt	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 read	cc
17	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 learnt	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 easily	advmod
19	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 read	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 read	advcl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 princes	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 princes	cop
27	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 know	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	brothers = brother		with diamond pencils on gold slates	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers's lessons	quickly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
3	read	present	brothers = brother not said here		easily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	might	every one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	brothers = brother	princes		tree rules

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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