Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 86
It was no secret, and many opinions were expressed on what he did.
Who acts: place, secret, shipbuilder · What happens: be, express, do · To what, where: secret, many opinions
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 (place, secret, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 secret | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 secret | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 secret | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expressed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 expressed | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 opinions | amod |
| 8 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 expressed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 expressed | aux:pass |
| 10 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 secret | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 expressed | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 secret | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | place | no secret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | past · passive | no secret not said here | many opinions | no secret | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | shipbuilder | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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