Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 5
The other was deeply read in the corporation laws, and knew by heart what every corporation ought to know; and accordingly he thought he could talk of affairs of state, and put his spoke in the wheel in the council.
Who acts: corporation laws, corporation · What happens: read, know, think, talk, put, speak · To what, where: other, corporation laws, wheel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corporation laws, corporation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux:pass |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 read | advmod |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 laws | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 laws | det |
| 8 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laws | compound |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laws | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 knew | obj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 corporation | det |
| 17 | corporation | corporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thought | cc |
| 23 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 25 thought | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 talk | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 talk | aux |
| 28 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 affairs | case |
| 30 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 talk | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 state | case |
| 32 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 affairs | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 put | cc |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 spoke | nmod:poss |
| 37 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 put | ccomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 wheel | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wheel | det |
| 40 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spoke | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 council | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 council | det |
| 43 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spoke | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · passive | the other | the corporation laws | deeply property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | past | the corporation laws not said here | the corporation laws | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | ought | every corporation | the corporation laws not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | corporation | accordingly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | talk | could | corporation | of affairs of state | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | the wheel | in the council | vn talk-37.5 «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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