Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 52

But I knew this lady many years ago, and she has been dead nearly half a century."

Who acts: I, much · What happens: know, be · To what, where: lady, dead century

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, much), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 century	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 century	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 century	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 century	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 century	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 century	amod
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 half	advmod
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 century	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 century	det
18	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	this lady				ago property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
2	is a	present · perfect	much	half dead century					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: «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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