Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 87

This had been said by many, and even the learned men acknowledged that it was a wise saying.

Who acts: learned men, Love · What happens: say, learn, acknowledge, be · To what, where: This, wise saying · 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 (learned men, Love), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 many	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 acknowledged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 acknowledged	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 men	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
11	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 acknowledged	nsubj
13	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 saying	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saying	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 saying	det
18	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	amod
19	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acknowledged	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		This	by many	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	acknowledge	past	the learned men			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Love	a wise saying		tree rules

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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