Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 82

When we listen to what people say in this world, we shall hear a great deal; but it is an advantage to know what has been said and done before, when we listen to a conversation.

Who acts: we, people, deal · What happens: listen, say, hear, be, know, do · To what, where: world, great deal, advantage · 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 (we, people, deal), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 listen	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 listen	nsubj
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 listen	obl
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deal	amod
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 advantage	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 advantage	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 advantage	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 advantage	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 advantage	det
23	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 know	mark
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 advantage	acl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 said	obj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 said	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 said	aux:pass
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 know	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 done	cc
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 said	conj
32	before	before	ADV	_	31 done	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 listen	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 listen	advmod
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 listen	nsubj
36	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 conversation	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 conversation	det
39	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 listen	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	present	we				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	people		this world		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in world=Manner
3	hear	shall	we	a great deal			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
4	is a	present	deal	a advantage			tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: what=Topic
7	do	participle				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	listen	present	we			to a conversation	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme

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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