Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 18

"I know every step of the way," said she; "and my thoughts are collected, while yours are down in the valley yonder.

Who acts: river, yours, my · What happens: know, say, collect, be, step, think · To what, where: step, thoughts, valley, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, yours, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 step	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 collected	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 thoughts	nmod:poss
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 collected	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 collected	aux:pass
19	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 valley	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 valley	mark
22	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 valley	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 valley	cop
24	down	down	ADV	_	27 valley	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 valley	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 valley	det
27	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 collected	conj
28	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	19 collected	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	river	every step of the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	river				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	collect in a quote	present · passive		my thoughts		yonder property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	yours		the valley	down property	tree rules
5	step in a quote			the way			nom step «act transitive»: of=patient
6	think in a quote		my				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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