Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 27

These were all only myths--nothing on which we could depend; and yet it is all written in a very learned book.

Who acts: These, we, myths · What happens: be, depend, write · To what, where: myths, tale, learned book

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, we, myths), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 myths	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 myths	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 myths	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 myths	advmod
5	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 myths	appos
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 depend	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 depend	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 depend	aux
12	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 written	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 written	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 written	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 written	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 written	aux:pass
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 written	advmod
19	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 myths	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 book	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 book	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 learned	advmod
23	learned	learned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 book	amod
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 written	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 myths	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	These	myths			all property	tree rules
2	depend	could	we					vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on which=Theme
3	write	present · passive	myths not said here	tale	a learned book	yet	all property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination

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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