Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 204

She told him from what country she had come, and found he knew it and had been there, but not while she was at home.

Who acts: Water, prince · What happens: tell, come, find, know, be, not be · To what, where: prince, country, dancer, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, prince), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 told	obl
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	acl:relcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 country	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 there	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 there	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 knew	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 home	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 home	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 home	advmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 home	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 home	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 home	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Water		prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	Water	country not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme
3	find	past	Water not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	know	past	prince	dancer				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is	past · perfect	prince not said here				there property	tree rules
6	not is	past	Water			home		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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