Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 56
Now, however, I had two of them, understanding and imagination; and through these I knew that the third was to be found in the library.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, know, find · To what, where: two understanding, these, third, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 understanding | nummod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 two | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understanding | punct |
| 11 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 imagination | cc |
| 13 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 understanding | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 knew | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 knew | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 library | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 library | det |
| 29 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | two understanding and imagination | now | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient | ||
| 2 | know | past | I | these | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | the third | the library | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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