Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 44

He had an anecdote that he told about those days, the only one he knew.

Who acts: General · What happens: have, tell, know · To what, where: anecdote, only one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:9485): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 anecdote	det
4	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 told	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anecdote	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anecdote	appos
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	General	a anecdote		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anecdote=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	General	a anecdote	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
3	know	past	General	the only one not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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