Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 53

I know every one here in the house, and I know there was once a time when I did not lie out here in the cold, fastened to a chain.

Who acts: I, time · What happens: know, be, not lie out, fasten · To what, where: one, house, cold · 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 (I, time), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 know	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	ccomp
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 was	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 lie	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 lie	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lie	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 lie	advmod
22	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 time	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 lie	compound:prt
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lie	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 cold	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cold	det
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lie	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fastened	punct
29	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 know	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 chain	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 chain	det
32	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fastened	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	every one	the house; here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	a time		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not lie out	past · do-support	I		the cold; here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cold=Location
5	fasten	participle	I not said here			to a chain	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to chain=Co-Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/53/