Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 46
"He knew how to fight also," said the old man; "for he lashed the follies and prejudices of people during his whole life."
Who acts: grandfather, old man · What happens: know, fight, say, lash, prejudice · To what, where: follies, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, old man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 fight | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | xcomp |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lashed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lashed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 lashed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lashed | nsubj |
| 18 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 follies | det |
| 20 | follies | folly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lashed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 prejudices | cc |
| 22 | prejudices | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 follies | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 prejudices | nmod |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lashed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | grandfather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | grandfather not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lash in a quote | past | grandfather | the follies and prejudices of people | during grandfather's whole life | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Patient | |||
| 5 | prejudice in a quote | people | nom prejudice «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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