Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 85
Waldemar Daa was arrogant and proud, but he was also a learned man, and knew a great deal.
Who acts: Waldemar, shipbuilder · What happens: be, learn, know · To what, where: learned man, great deal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waldemar, shipbuilder), 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 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrogant | nsubj |
| 2 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waldemar | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrogant | cop |
| 4 | arrogant | arrogant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 proud | cc |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrogant | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 man | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrogant | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrogant | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 deal | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deal | amod |
| 20 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrogant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Waldemar | arrogant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Waldemar not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | shipbuilder | a learned man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | a great deal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=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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