Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 18
I knew that from living in a library.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, live · To what, where: that, library
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 living | mark |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 library | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 library | det |
| 8 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | I not said here | a library | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in library=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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