Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 248

She came of a great family, for all that; but she did not know it, and the old clerk did not know it, though he had so much written down; but one of the old crows knew about it, and told about it.

Who acts: family, old clerk, clerk, one · What happens: come, not know, have, write down, know, tell · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (family, old clerk, clerk, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 family	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 family	amod
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 that	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 that	det
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 came	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 know	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clerk	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clerk	amod
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 know	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 know	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 written	advmod
33	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	xcomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 written	compound:prt
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 knew	cc
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 knew	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 crows	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crows	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 crows	amod
41	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
43	about	about	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knew	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 told	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
48	about	about	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 told	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	family		of a great family; for that	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of family=Initial_Location
2	not know	past · do-support	family	horse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not know	past · do-support	the old clerk	horse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	have	past	clerk			tree rules
5	write down	participle	clerk not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know	past	one of the old crows		about horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	past	family not said here		about horse	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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