Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 32
People knew that he came from Bremen; it was not exactly his home, although his master resided there.
Who acts: People, Anthony, appearance, master · What happens: know, come, not be, reside · To what, where: Bremen, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, Anthony, appearance, master), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Bremen | case |
| 7 | Bremen | Bremen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 home | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 home | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 home | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 home | advmod |
| 12 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 home | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resided | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 resided | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resided | nsubj |
| 19 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 resided | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | People | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Anthony | Bremen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bremen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | appearance | Anthony's home | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reside | past | Anthony's master | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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