Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 28

Strangers had done this; they who had known the good old father who was now dead, and who had loved him very much.

Who acts: Strangers, good old father · What happens: do, know, be, love · To what, where: this, Strangers, father

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strangers, good old father), 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	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 done	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 done	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 known	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 known	nsubj:pass
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 known	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 done	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dead	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 dead	advmod
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 loved	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 loved	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 loved	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 loved	aux
22	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 done	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 loved	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	22 loved	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Strangers	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	know	past · perfect · passive		Strangers = stranger			tree rules
3	is	past	the good old father		now	dead property	tree rules
4	love	past · perfect · passive		father			tree rules

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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