Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 30
Yes, they all knew this; but men may know what is right, and yet often do wrong.
Who acts: men · What happens: know, be, do · To what, where: this · 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 (men), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 knew | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knew | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 right | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 do | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | men = man | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | may | men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present | men = man not said here | yet | often, wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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