Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 43

"Of course I know them," replied the yard-dog; "she has stroked my back many times, and he has given me a bone of meat.

Who acts: yard dog, cold · What happens: know, reply, stroke, give · To what, where: drops, back, dog, young man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard dog, cold), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 know	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dog	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 yard	punct
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stroked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 stroked	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stroked	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stroked	aux
18	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 know	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroked	obj
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stroked	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 given	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 given	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stroked	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 given	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bone	det
30	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 meat	case
32	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bone	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the yard dog = dog	drops = drop			tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the yard dog				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stroke in a quote	present · perfect	cold	my back		time	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer
4	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		dog	the young man = man		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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