Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 29

The old proverb, which every one knows, says that "the cattle know when to leave their pasture, but a foolish man knows not the measure of his own appetite."

Who acts: one, old proverb, cattle, foolish man · What happens: know, say, leave, not know, measure · To what, where: old proverb, pasture, measure, own appetite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old proverb, cattle, foolish man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proverb	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proverb	amod
3	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knows	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proverb	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proverb	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cattle	det
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 leave	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 leave	mark
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pasture	nmod:poss
20	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knows	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 knows	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knows	nsubj
26	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 knows	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 measure	det
29	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knows	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 appetite	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 appetite	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 appetite	amod
33	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 measure	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 knows	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	every one	the old proverb	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the old proverb		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the cattle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave in a quote	to-infinitive		cattle's pasture	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Theme
5	not know in a quote	present	a foolish man	the measure of proverb's own appetite	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus
6	measure in a quote			proverb's own appetite	nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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