Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 33

I knew him formerly, when we used to drink together to our good fellowship: he came here once to fetch his wife, she is dead now.

Who acts: I, we, Father, wife · What happens: know, use, drink, come, fetch, be · To what, where: Father, wife

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, Father, wife), 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obj
4	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 used	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 used	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drink	mark
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 used	xcomp
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 drink	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 fellowship	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fellowship	nmod:poss
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellowship	amod
15	fellowship	fellowship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 came	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fetch	mark
22	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fetch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dead	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dead	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fetch	conj
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 fetch	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	Father			formerly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	use	past	we					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	we not said here				to our good fellowship; together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	Father		here		once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fetch	to-infinitive	Father not said here	Father's wife		now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	is	present	wife				dead property	tree rules

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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