Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 11

From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens, and of brave knights on prancing steeds; of the halt and the blind, and I know not what more, for I assure you I never think of these things."

Who acts: me, I · What happens: go, not know, assure, not think, describe · To what, where: wonderful descriptions, world, you, troops

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, 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	From	from	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 know	advcl
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 descriptions	det
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 descriptions	amod
11	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 troops	case
13	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 descriptions	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 maidens	case
15	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maidens	compound
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 troops	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knights	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knights	cc
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 knights	case
20	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knights	amod
21	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 descriptions	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 steeds	case
23	prancing	prancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 steeds	compound
24	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 knights	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 halt	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 halt	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 halt	det
28	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 blind	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blind	det
31	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 halt	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 know	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 know	nsubj
35	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 know	advmod
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 know	conj
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 what	amod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 assure	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 assure	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 assure	nsubj
42	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 know	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 assure	iobj
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 think	nsubj
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 think	advmod
46	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 assure	parataxis
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 things	case
48	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 things	det
49	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 think	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	me	that wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens and brave knights on prancing steeds		the world	of the halt; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to world=Initial_Location of halt=Destination
2	not know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	assure	present	I		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not think speech: other	present	I				of this things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	describe			troops of charming maidens				nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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