Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 17
Very little is known of the Marsh King's rule, but that, perhaps, is a good thing.
Who acts: that, Marsh King · What happens: know, be, rule · To what, where: little, good thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Marsh King), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rule | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rule | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 thing | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thing | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 20 thing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perhaps | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | little | of the Marsh King's rule | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a good thing | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rule | the Marsh King | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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