Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 3

Every child in the old town of Odense, on the island of Funen, knows the Au, which washes the gardens round about the town, and flows on under the wooden bridges from the dam to the water-mill.

Who acts: child, Au · What happens: know, wash, flow · To what, where: Au, gardens, wooden bridges

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, Au), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knows	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Odense	case
8	Odense	Odense	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 town	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 island	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 island	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Odense	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Funen	case
14	Funen	Funen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 island	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Au	det
18	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 knows	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 washes	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 washes	nsubj
21	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Au	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gardens	det
23	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 washes	obj
24	round	round	ADV	_	21 washes	advmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 washes	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flows	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flows	cc
30	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 knows	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	35 bridges	case
32	under	under	ADP	_	35 bridges	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bridges	det
34	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bridges	amod
35	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flows	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 dam	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dam	det
38	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bridges	nmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 mill	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mill	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mill	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 water	punct
43	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dam	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	every child in the old town of Odense	the Au			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer au=Stimulus
2	wash	present	the Au	the gardens		about the town; round property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
3	flow	present	every child in the old town of Odense not said here		the wooden bridges from the dam to the water mill		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Location

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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