Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 7
I knew that, for I had not yet seen her begin the 'long journey,' of which she often spoke with her friend. '
Who acts: I, Moon · What happens: know, not see, begin, speak · To what, where: that, Moon, long journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Moon), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | obj |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seen | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begin | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spoke | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 spoke | advmod |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 friend | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | I | Moon | yet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | infinitive | Moon not said here | the long journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | Moon | with Moon's friend; often property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-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: «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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