Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 12

He knows what he wants, and is lord over the meal and the bran; but he has his companion, too, and she calls herself 'Mother.'

Who acts: Man, Dutchman · What happens: know, want, be, have, call · To what, where: lord, meal, companion, Dutchman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Dutchman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wants	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lord	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lord	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lord	cop
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 meal	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meal	det
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lord	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bran	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bran	det
15	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lord	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 has	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 companion	nmod:poss
21	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 too	punct
23	too	too	ADV	_	19 has	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 calls	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 calls	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 calls	nsubj
27	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 calls	obj
29	'	's	PART	_	28 herself	case
30	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 calls	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	Man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	want	present	Man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	is a	present		lord and the bran	the meal	tree rules
4	have	present	Man	Man's companion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient
5	call	present	Dutchman	Dutchman		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme mother=Result

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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