Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 9

They had never been away from the garden; but they knew that another place once existed in the world, called the Duke's Palace Castle, in which some of their relations had been boiled till they became black, and were then laid on a silver dish; but what was done afterwards they did not know.

Who acts: snails, place · What happens: have, not be, know, exist, call, boil · To what, where: garden, world, some, silver dish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snails, place), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 away	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 away	cop
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 existed	mark
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 existed	nsubj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 existed	advmod
17	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knew	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 existed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 world	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Duke	det
24	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Palace	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Duke	case
26	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
27	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Palace	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 boiled	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 boiled	obl
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 boiled	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 relations	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 relations	nmod:poss
34	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 some	nmod
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 boiled	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 boiled	aux:pass
37	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 called	conj
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 became	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 became	nsubj
40	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 boiled	ccomp
41	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 became	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 laid	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 laid	cc
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 laid	aux:pass
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 laid	advmod
46	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 existed	conj
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 dish	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 dish	det
49	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dish	compound
50	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laid	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 done	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 done	cc
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 done	nsubj:pass
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 done	aux:pass
55	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
56	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	60 know	advmod
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 know	nsubj
58	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 know	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 know	advmod
60	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 done	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	snails = snail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			the garden		away property	tree rules
3	know	past	snails = snail					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	exist	past	another place		the world		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
5	call	participle		the world not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	boil	past · perfect · passive		some				tree rules
7	become	past	snails = snail				black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	lay	past · passive	another place not said here		a silver dish	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on dish=Destination
9	do	past · passive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
10	not know	past · do-support	snails = snail				afterwards 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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