Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 53

"It must be Kay," said Gerda, "I know he had new boots on, I have heard them creak in grandmother's room."

Who acts: light, Kay · What happens: be, say, know, have, hear, creak · To what, where: Kay, new boots, boots, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Kay), 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 Kay	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Kay	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Kay	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 Kay	cop
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Kay	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Kay	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boots	amod
17	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	on	on	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 creak	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	obj
24	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 room	case
26	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 room	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 grandmother	case
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 creak	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 creak	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 creak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	light	Kay		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Kay			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	Kay			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have in a quote	past	Kay	new boots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
5	hear in a quote	present · perfect	Kay	boots = boot		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	creak in a quote	present			grandmother's room	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=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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