Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 91
Nobody knows his grave; no holy words have been read over it!"
Who acts: Nobody · What happens: know, read · To what, where: grave, holy words
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 grave | nmod:poss |
| 4 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 read | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 words | det |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 read | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 read | aux:pass |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knows | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 read | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 read | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nobody | God's grave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | read | present · perfect · passive | no holy words | grave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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