Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 120
We knew them both; it was the fairy of Care, and the emissary of Fortune.
Who acts: We, mound · What happens: know, be · To what, where: figures, fairy
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, mound), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 2 knew | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 fairy | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fairy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fairy | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Care | case |
| 11 | Care | Care | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fairy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 emissary | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 emissary | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emissary | det |
| 15 | emissary | emissary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fortune | case |
| 17 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 emissary | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | We | figures = figure | the emissary of Fortune obl; both property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | mound | the fairy | of Care | 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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