Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 97
"But they have learned swimming of us," remarked a well-educated Codling. "
Who acts: advantages, educated Codling · What happens: learn, remark, educate, swim · To what, where: swimming, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advantages, educated Codling), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 learned | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 swimming | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 learned | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Codling | det |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 educated | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Codling | amod |
| 16 | Codling | codling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | advantages = advantage | swimming of us | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimming=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | a educated Codling | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | educate speech: other | participle | well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swim in a quote | us | nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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