Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 23

I knew he would bring me some shells from the gulf of Lepanto, or perhaps a knife with a shining blade.

Who acts: I, father · What happens: know, bring, shine · To what, where: shells, me, gulf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 shells	det
8	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 gulf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gulf	det
11	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Lepanto	case
13	Lepanto	Lepanto	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gulf	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knife	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 knife	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 knife	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gulf	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 blade	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blade	det
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 blade	amod
22	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knife	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bring	would	father	some shells	me	the gulf of Lepanto or a knife with a shining blade	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination shell=Theme
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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