Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 31
They also knew "that even the welcome guest becomes wearisome when he sits too long in the house."
Who acts: men, welcome guest, proverb · What happens: know, become, sit · To what, where: that, house · 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, welcome guest, proverb), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 becomes | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 guest | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guest | det |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guest | compound |
| 9 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 becomes | nsubj |
| 10 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 becomes | xcomp |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sits | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sits | nsubj |
| 14 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 becomes | advcl |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 sits | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sits | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | men = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | become in a quote | present | the welcome guest | that | wearisome property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient that=Result | |||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | proverb | the house | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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