Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 19

The French people knew how to fight in more ways than one, and the girls knew how to conquer too; and when he said this the uncle nodded at his wife, who was a French woman by birth, and laughed.

Who acts: French people, girls, Valais, uncle, wife · What happens: know, fight, conquer, say, nod, be · To what, where: more ways, this, French woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French people, girls, Valais, uncle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fight	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ways	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 ways	amod
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fight	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girls	det
16	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 conquer	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 conquer	mark
20	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	xcomp
21	too	too	ADV	_	20 conquer	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 said	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 said	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 uncle	det
29	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nodded	nsubj
30	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 wife	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nodded	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 woman	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 woman	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 woman	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 woman	det
38	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 woman	amod
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wife	appos
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 birth	case
41	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 woman	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 laughed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 laughed	cc
44	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the French people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fight	to-infinitive	the French people not said here		more ways	than one	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	the girls				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	conquer	to-infinitive	the girls not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Valais	this			tree rules
6	nod	past	the uncle			at Valais's wife	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Valais's wife	a French woman		by birth	tree rules
8	laugh	past	the French people not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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