Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 20
It is the voice of nature, and I reckon by that."
Who acts: mankind, I · What happens: be, reckon · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mankind, I), 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 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reckon | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reckon | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 reckon | nsubj |
| 10 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 reckon | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mankind | the voice | of nature | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reckon | present | I | by that | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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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