Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 80

The clerk told all this in our own times; he had collected it and looked it up in books and memoranda.

Who acts: clerk · What happens: tell, collect, look up · To what, where: this, rope, books · 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 (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 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 this	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 told	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 times	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 times	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 collected	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 collected	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 collected	aux
13	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 collected	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 collected	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 looked	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 books	case
20	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 memoranda	cc
22	memoranda	memoranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 books	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the clerk	this		time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
2	collect	past · perfect	clerk	rope			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	look up	past	clerk not said here	rope	books and memoranda		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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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