Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 78
I knew him directly by the pressure of his hand."
Who acts: I · What happens: know, press · To what, where: General, hand
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), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 2 knew | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pressure | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pressure | det |
| 7 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pressure | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | General | by the pressure of General's hand; directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | press | General's hand | nom pressure «phenomenon 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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