Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 61
I know everybody;" and his thoughts wandered all through society, for he knew everybody there. "
Who acts: I, thoughts, General · What happens: know, wander, think · To what, where: everybody, society · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, thoughts, General), 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 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wandered | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wandered | nsubj |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 society | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 society | case |
| 12 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 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 | 9 wandered | parataxis |
| 17 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 knew | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 knew | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | everybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everybody=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wander in a quote | past | General's thoughts | society | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through society=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | General | everybody | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everybody=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | think in a quote | General | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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