Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 97
Much has been said and much written which we pass over or know nothing of.
Who acts: we · What happens: say, write, pass over, know · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 written | cc |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 written | advmod |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | xcomp |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 pass | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pass | nsubj |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | ccomp |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 pass | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pass | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | write | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | pass over | present | we | over property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | know | present | we not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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