Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 11

The clerk knew all about the place, and about the old times, for he had his knowledge from books, and many a memorandum had been written and put in his table-drawer.

Who acts: clerk · What happens: know, have, write, put · To what, where: place, knowledge, books, many, table drawer

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 place	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 times	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 times	cc
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 times	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 times	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 had	case
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knowledge	nmod:poss
19	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 books	case
21	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 written	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 written	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 written	nsubj:pass
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 memorandum	det
26	memorandum	memorandum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 written	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 written	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 written	aux:pass
29	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 written	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 drawer	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 drawer	nmod:poss
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drawer	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 table	punct
36	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	know	past	the clerk	the place		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
2	have	past	clerk	clerk's knowledge	books		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
3	write	past · perfect · passive		many			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	put	participle			clerk's table drawer		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in drawer=Destination

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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