Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 112
Neither the mole nor the field-mouse knew anything about it, for they did not like swallows.
Who acts: mole, swallow · What happens: know, not like · To what, where: anything, swallows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole, swallow), 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 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 knew | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mole | det |
| 3 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 mouse | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouse | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouse | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 field | punct |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mole | conj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 anything | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 like | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knew | conj |
| 19 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 like | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the mole nor the field mouse | anything | about love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | swallow | swallows | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot swallow=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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