Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 6

They expect friends in the elfin hill, grand company, too; but who they are the earth-worm would not say, or, perhaps, he really did not know.

Who acts: lizards, worm · What happens: expect, not be, not know · To what, where: friends, elfin hill

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 (lizards, worm), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 expect	nsubj
2	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 expect	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	compound
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expect	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 company	punct
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 company	amod
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 too	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 company	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 say	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 worm	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worm	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 earth	punct
21	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 say	advmod
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 expect	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 know	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 or	punct
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 know	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
31	really	really	ADV	_	34 know	advmod
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	present	lizards = lizard	friends	the elfin hill		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	not is	would · present				say property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	worm			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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