Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 10

The youth who knew the dictionary and newspaper by heart had a black horse, and he who knew all about the corporation laws received a milk-white steed.

Who acts: youth, heart, horse, corporation laws · What happens: know, have, receive · To what, where: dictionary, black horse, white steed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, heart, horse, corporation laws), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dictionary	det
6	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 newspaper	cc
8	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dictionary	conj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
20	all	all	ADV	_	19 knew	advmod
21	about	about	SCONJ	_	25 received	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 laws	det
23	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laws	compound
24	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 received	nsubj
25	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 steed	det
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 milk	punct
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 steed	amod
30	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the youth	the dictionary and newspaper		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dictionary=Stimulus
2	have	past	heart	a black horse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	know	past	horse		all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	receive	past	the corporation laws	a white steed		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme

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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