Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 2
It was all very well for those who knew him, but not for strangers.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, know · To what, where: Tuk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | 7 those | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 those | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 those | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 all | fixed |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strangers | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 strangers | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 strangers | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 strangers | case |
| 15 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 those | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | name | for those; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Tuk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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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