Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 75

The atmosphere, they asserted, must be too dense for any inhabitants of the moon to exist there.

Who acts: inhabitants, atmosphere · What happens: assert, be, exist · To what, where: atmosphere

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 (inhabitants, atmosphere), 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 atmosphere	det
2	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dense	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 atmosphere	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asserted	nsubj
5	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 atmosphere	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 atmosphere	punct
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dense	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dense	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 dense	advmod
10	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 inhabitants	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 inhabitants	det
13	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dense	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 moon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inhabitants	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 exist	mark
18	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 dense	parataxis
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 exist	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assert	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	the atmosphere not said here			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Theme
2	is	must	the atmosphere			for any inhabitants of the moon; dense property	tree rules
3	exist	to-infinitive			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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