Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 69
"The glory and brightness, yonder, outshines all that is known on earth," said he.
Who acts: glory, priest · What happens: outshine, know, say · To what, where: that, earth · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glory, priest), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 outshines | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glory | det |
| 3 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 outshines | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brightness | cc |
| 5 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glory | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 glory | punct |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 9 outshines | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yonder | punct |
| 9 | outshines | outshine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 known | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 outshines | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 outshines | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 outshines | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outshine in a quote | present | the glory and brightness | yonder property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · passive | that | earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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