Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 38

No one knows or cares about them, for they are all of them buried; but I knew her in by-gone days, and now she has been dead and gone these fifty years!”

Who acts: one, I, picture · What happens: know, care, bury, know in, be · To what, where: all, picture

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, picture), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 cares	cc
5	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cares	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 all	case
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 all	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 all	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cares	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 all	nmod
15	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 all	acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 knew	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 days	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 by	punct
24	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 knew	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dead	cc
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 dead	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dead	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 dead	cop
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knows	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gone	cc
34	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dead	conj
35	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 years	det
36	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dead	obl:unmarked
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	care	present	no one not said here	all		about Thankee	tree rules
3	bury	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	know in	past	I	picture	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	is	present · perfect	picture		now; year	dead property	tree rules
6	be		picture not said here				tree rules

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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