Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 5

I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive generations that dwelt there; and now I'm going to tell you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters.

Who acts: I, successive generations · What happens: know, dwell, go, tell · To what, where: walls, you · 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, successive generations), 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lords	punct
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 lords	det
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lords	amod
8	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ladies	cc
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lords	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 generations	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 generations	det
13	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 generations	amod
14	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lords	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 dwelt	nsubj
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 generations	acl:relcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 dwelt	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 going	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Waldemar	case
28	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obl
29	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Waldemar	flat
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 daughters	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughters	nmod:poss
32	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Waldemar	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	walls = wall				that noble lords and ladies and the successive generations obl; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	dwell	past	the successive generations			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present · progressive	I				now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you			of Waldemar and castle's daughters	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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