Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 76

Jurgen knew all this, he had some little knowledge; and although he did not know the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps, he had an idea that it must be there, for in his boyhood he had been in the south, in Spain.

Who acts: Jurgen, land · What happens: know, have, not know, be · To what, where: this, little knowledge, land, idea, Spain, south

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, land), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 this	det:predet
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 knowledge	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knowledge	amod
10	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Lombards	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Lombards	det
22	Lombards	Lombard	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 land	nmod
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	26 Alps	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Alps	det
25	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Alps	amod
26	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Lombards	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 idea	det
31	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 there	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 there	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 there	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 idea	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 south	punct
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 boyhood	case
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 boyhood	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 boyhood	nmod:poss
41	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 south	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 south	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 south	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 south	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 south	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 south	det
47	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Spain	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 Spain	case
50	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Jurgen	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	have	past	Jurgen	some little knowledge			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
3	not know	past · do-support	Jurgen	the land of the Lombards beyond the lofty Alps			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
4	have	past	Jurgen	a idea	Spain		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
5	is	must	land	a idea not said here		there property	tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	Jurgen		the south	for Jurgen's boyhood	tree rules

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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