Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 14
The learned men have done nothing at all but use their tongues.
Who acts: learned men · What happens: learn, do, use · To what, where: nothing, all, tongues
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. 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), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 done | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 use | cc |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | the learned men | nothing | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | use | infinitive | the learned men not said here | men's tongues | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
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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