Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 55

Nearly every one is acquainted with the great power of steam; we have proved it by the rapidity with which we can travel, both on a railroad or in a steamship across the sea.

Who acts: we · What happens: acquaint, prove, travel · To what, where: one, steam, both, railroad

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 acquainted	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acquainted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 acquainted	aux:pass
5	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 power	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 power	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 power	amod
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acquainted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 steam	case
11	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 power	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 proved	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 proved	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proved	aux
15	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 acquainted	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proved	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 rapidity	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rapidity	det
19	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 travel	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 travel	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 travel	aux
24	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rapidity	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 both	punct
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 travel	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 railroad	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 railroad	det
29	railroad	railroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 travel	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 steamship	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 steamship	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 steamship	det
33	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 railroad	conj
34	across	across	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 travel	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 acquainted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	acquaint speech: other	present · passive		every one		with the great power of steam; nearly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	prove	present · perfect	we	steam		by the rapidity	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	travel	can	we	both	a railroad or a steamship	with the rapidity; across the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on railroad=Trajectory

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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