Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 91
I know that you went down to her on the night when my father died, and you stayed with her till his eyes were closed.
Who acts: I, you, father · What happens: know, go down, die, stay, close · To what, where: mother, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. 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, father), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 died | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stayed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stayed | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 stayed | nsubj |
| 19 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stayed | obl |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 closed | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 closed | aux:pass |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stayed | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go down | past | you | mother | night | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 3 | die | past | my father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | stay | past | you | with mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location | ||||
| 5 | close | past · passive | father's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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