Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 24
"Much you know of what grows here," she replied, laughing. "
Who acts: you, snow · What happens: know, grow, reply, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, snow), 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 | _ | 2 Much | punct |
| 2 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Much | parataxis |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 grows | nsubj |
| 7 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 grows | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grows | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughing | punct |
| 14 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 replied | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Much | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | present | here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | snow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | snow not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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