Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 40

I still remember his face, but from whence he came, or whither he went, I know not; no one knows.

Who acts: I, Denmark, one · What happens: remember, come, go, not know, know · To what, where: face · 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 (I, Denmark, one), 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	3 remember	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 remember	advmod
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 whence	case
9	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
14	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 knows	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knows	nsubj
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I	Denmark's face	still		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent face=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	past	Denmark			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	Denmark			whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	know	present	no one				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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