Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 10

An old grandfather sat and told his little grandson all this about Holger Danske, and the boy knew that what his grandfather told him must be true.

Who acts: old grandfather, boy, grandfather · What happens: sit, tell, know, be · To what, where: this, little grandson, Holger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandfather, boy, grandfather), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grandfather	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandfather	amod
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandson	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grandson	amod
9	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 this	det:predet
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 told	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 Holger	case
13	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
14	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Holger	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 true	mark
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 true	nsubj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandfather	nmod:poss
23	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 true	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 knew	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a old grandfather				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	a old grandfather not said here	this	Holger's little grandson	about Holger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grandson=Recipient about holger=Topic
3	know	past	the boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	past	Holger's grandfather		Holger		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	must				true 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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