Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 204
I know where it lies, and where her grave is too, but nobody else knows it.
Who acts: I, nest, grave, nobody · What happens: know, lie, be · To what, where: grave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nest, grave, nobody), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 lies | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 too | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 too | cc |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 too | advmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 too | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 too | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 lies | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 knows | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 nobody | advmod |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knows | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | stork's grave | too property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present | nobody | grave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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