Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 5
It was quite an event, and all the town knew of it, so that it was not necessary to announce it by beat of drum.
Who acts: stranger, town · What happens: be, know, not be, announce · To what, where: event, stranger
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, town), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 event | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 event | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 event | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 event | det |
| 5 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 town | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 event | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 necessary | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 necessary | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 necessary | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 necessary | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 necessary | advmod |
| 20 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 announce | mark |
| 22 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 necessary | csubj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 announce | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 beat | case |
| 25 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 announce | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 drum | case |
| 27 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beat | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 event | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | stranger | a event | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | all town | of stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | all town not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | stranger | by beat of drum | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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