Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 6

No one knew who the dead stranger was, they could not even form a conjecture; the fragments of wreckage gave no clue to the matter.

Who acts: one, dead stranger, mother, fragments · What happens: know, be, not form, give · To what, where: conjecture, clue, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, dead stranger, mother, fragments), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stranger	amod
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 who	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 form	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 form	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 form	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 form	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 form	advmod
14	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 conjecture	det
16	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 form	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fragments	det
19	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wreckage	case
21	wreckage	wreckage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fragments	nmod
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 clue	det
24	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 matter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 matter	det
27	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the dead stranger			tree rules
3	not form	could	mother	a conjecture		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conjecture=Theme
4	give	past	the fragments of wreckage	no clue	the matter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clue=Theme to matter=Recipient

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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