Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 208
The discourse fell upon Mother Soren, but the tax collector did not know much about her, and, indeed, few knew much about her.
Who acts: discourse, tax collector, few · What happens: fall, not know, know · To what, where: much
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 (discourse, tax collector, few), 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 discourse | det |
| 2 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 Mother | case |
| 5 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mother | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 collector | det |
| 10 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collector | compound |
| 11 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | conj |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 much | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knew | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 few | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 few | punct |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 knew | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the discourse | upon Mother | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon mother=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the tax collector | much | about discourse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past | few | about discourse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about she=Stimulus |
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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