Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 8

He even saw the town where they had lived in joy and prosperity, but he knew nothing of his home or his relations, and his relations knew just as little about him.

Who acts: Jurgen, parents, relations · What happens: see, live, know · To what, where: town, joy, nothing, little

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, parents, relations), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lived	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	aux
9	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 town	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 joy	case
11	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prosperity	cc
13	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 knew	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 home	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 home	nmod:poss
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 relations	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 relations	nmod:poss
24	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 home	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knew	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 relations	nmod:poss
28	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
30	just	just	ADV	_	32 little	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 little	advmod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knew	obj
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 little	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	Jurgen	the town		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus
2	live	past · perfect	parents = parent		joy and prosperity	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location
3	know	past	Jurgen	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	know	past	Jurgen's relations	little		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=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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