Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 14
I often lent him books--good books; and you may know by the company he keeps.
Who acts: I, you, blacking · What happens: lend, know, keep · To what, where: books, blacking, company
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, blacking), 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 | 3 lent | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 lent | advmod |
| 3 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lent | obj |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lent | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 books | punct |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 books | amod |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 books | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lent | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 company | det |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keeps | nsubj |
| 18 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 company | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past | I | books and good books | blacking | often property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient book=Theme | ||
| 2 | know | may | you | by the company | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | blacking | the company not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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