Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 91
All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that it was impossible for stork-papa to follow it, much less to talk about it.
What happens: explain, be, follow, talk · To what, where: things, Love
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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 explained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 explained | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 elaborately | advmod |
| 6 | elaborately | elaborately | ADV | _ | 9 explained | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 explained | cc |
| 8 | learnedly | learnedly | ADV | _ | 9 explained | advmod |
| 9 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impossible | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 impossible | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 impossible | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 impossible | cop |
| 14 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 explained | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 papa | case |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 papa | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 stork | punct |
| 18 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 impossible | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impossible | csubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 talk | punct |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 less | advmod |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 talk | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 talk | mark |
| 26 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 follow | conj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 talk | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past · passive | all things | elaborately, learnedly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for stork papa; impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | Love | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive | about Love; less property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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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