Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 20
But it is not so easy to find out if one does not know.
Who acts: one · What happens: not be, find out, not know
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 easy | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 easy | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | csubj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 find | compound:prt |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 find | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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