Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 25

But of the Marsh Woman nothing is known, excepting that when a mist arises from the meadows, in summer time, it is because she is brewing beneath them.

Who acts: mist · What happens: know, except, arise, be · To what, where: nothing, meadows

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist), 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	_	8 known	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nothing	det
4	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Woman	compound
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	compound
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 known	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 known	aux:pass
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 excepting	punct
10	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 known	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 arises	mark
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 arises	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mist	det
14	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arises	nsubj
15	arises	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 excepting	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 meadows	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meadows	det
18	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arises	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	compound
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arises	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brewing	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brewing	nsubj:outer
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brewing	cop
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 brewing	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brewing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brewing	aux
29	brewing	brew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 excepting	conj
30	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brewing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	except	gerund						tree rules
3	arise	present	a mist		the meadows	time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present · progressive	mist				beneath meadows = meadow; brew property	tree rules

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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