Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 12

Our aunt knew every acting play, every bit of scenery, every character, every one who appeared or had appeared.

Who acts: aunt, one · What happens: know, appear · To what, where: acting play

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, one), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 play	det
5	acting	acting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	compound
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 scenery	case
11	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 character	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 character	det
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	appos
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 appeared	nsubj
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 one	acl:relcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 appeared	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	aux
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 appeared	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	Our aunt	every acting play and every character	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus
2	appear	past	every one		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past · perfect	every one not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «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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