Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 43

I know the date,' said she; but those below did not hear her, for they were talking about old times.

Who acts: I, Granny, wife · What happens: know, say, not hear, talk · To what, where: date, Granny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Granny, wife), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 date	det
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 date	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 hear	cc
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 hear	det
12	below	below	ADV	_	15 hear	advmod
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hear	advmod
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talking	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 talking	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 talking	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 talking	aux
21	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hear	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 times	case
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 times	amod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 talking	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	the date			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer date=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Granny				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not hear	past · do-support		Granny		below property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	talk	past · progressive	wife		time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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