Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 172

Grandmother knows a great deal, for she was alive before father and mother--that's quite certain.

Who acts: Grandmother, that · What happens: know, be · To what, where: great deal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, that), 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	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 alive	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 alive	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 alive	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knows	conj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 father	case
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 alive	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 certain	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 certain	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 certain	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 certain	advmod
19	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alive	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Grandmother	a great deal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
2	is	past	GRANDMOTHER		before father and mother	alive property	tree rules
3	is	present	that			certain 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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