Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 4

She said she knew he must be dead; that he was drowned in the river which flowed close by the school.

Who acts: Gerda, Kay, river · What happens: say, know, be, drown, flow · To what, where: Kay, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Kay, river), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 drowned	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 drowned	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drowned	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drowned	aux:pass
13	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drowned	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 flowed	nsubj
18	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 river	acl:relcl
19	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 flowed	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 school	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 school	det
22	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flowed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Gerda				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	Gerda				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	must	Kay			dead property	tree rules
4	drown	past · passive		Kay	the river		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	flow	past	the river			by the school; close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by school=Location

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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