Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 10
They knew that the Professor had been born and grown up within their four walls.
Who acts: people · What happens: know, bear, grow up · To what, where: Professor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 born | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Professor | det |
| 5 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grown | cc |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 born | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grown | compound:prt |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 walls | nmod:poss |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 walls | nummod |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grown | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · perfect · passive | the Professor | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | within people's four walls | 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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