Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 11

And now the professor of botany presented himself, one who could explain his knowledge in black and white.

Who acts: professor, one · What happens: present, explain · To what, where: professor, knowledge, black

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 presented	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 presented	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 professor	det
4	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 presented	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 botany	case
6	botany	botany	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 professor	nmod
7	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 presented	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 explain	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 explain	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	aux
13	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 presented	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knowledge	nmod:poss
15	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 explain	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 black	case
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 explain	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 white	cc
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 black	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	past	the professor of botany	professor			now		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	could	one	professor's knowledge		black			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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