Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 122

I have known about you a long time in my home; the swallow told me about you.

Who acts: I, swallow · What happens: know, tell · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallow), 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	3 known	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 known	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 known	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 told	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · perfect	I				time	about you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about you=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the swallow		me			about you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about you=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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