Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 36
I knew him, and thought of the Vatican, and of the group of the Nile, and the old marble gods.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, think · To what, where: homage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third 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), 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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Vatican | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Vatican | det |
| 9 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 group | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 group | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 group | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 group | det |
| 14 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Vatican | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Nile | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Nile | det |
| 17 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 group | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gods | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gods | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gods | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gods | amod |
| 22 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gods | compound |
| 23 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | homage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | of the Vatican | vn focus-87.1-1 «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: «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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