Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 1
The papa and mamma storks knew all this, and we also know it now.
Who acts: papa, we · What happens: know · To what, where: this, mamma
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (papa, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 papa | det |
| 2 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mamma | cc |
| 4 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 papa | conj |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 this | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 know | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the papa and mamma | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | we | mamma | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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