Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 7

This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, about which we can read in the "Official Directory."

Who acts: wilderness, we · What happens: be, read · To what, where: immense wild heath, Official Directory

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 (wilderness, we), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 wilderness	det
2	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heath	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heath	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	8 heath	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heath	det
6	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heath	amod
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heath	amod
8	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ground	amod
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heath	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 read	obl
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 read	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 read	aux
17	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heath	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 Directory	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Directory	det
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Directory	punct
21	Official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Directory	amod
22	Directory	Directory	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 read	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 heath	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this wilderness	a immense wild heath			still	of marshy ground	tree rules
2	read	can	we			the Official Directory		about a immense wild heath	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about which=Topic

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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