Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 256
And now we know the story of the old manor house, of its old proprietors, and of all Poultry Meg's family.
Who acts: we · What happens: know · To what, where: story
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 (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 10 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proprietors | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 proprietors | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 proprietors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 proprietors | amod |
| 16 | proprietors | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 story | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 family | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 family | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Meg | det |
| 21 | Poultry | Poultry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Meg | compound |
| 22 | Meg | Meg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Meg | case |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | we | the story of the old manor house | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=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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