Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 5

Nobody knew; nobody could give any intelligence.

Who acts: Nobody · What happens: know, give · To what, where: intelligence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (Nobody), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 give	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 intelligence	det
8	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	give	could	nobody	any intelligence					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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