Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 54
The grandfather seldom spoke of this, but the fact was generally known.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: speak, know · To what, where: fact · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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 grandfather | det |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 known | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fact | det |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 12 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 13 known | advmod |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spoke | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the grandfather | of this; seldom property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the fact | generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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