Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 80
I know not how I learnt this truth, unless it is through the name of Christ."
Who acts: I, earth · What happens: not know, learn, be · To what, where: truth, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, earth), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 learnt | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 6 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 10 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 name | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 name | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 name | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Christ | case |
| 17 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | I | this truth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | earth | the name | of Christ | tree rules |
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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