Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 35

He alone knew what the newly-married couple would receive from Babette's godmother, and he knew also that it was a wedding present well worth a concession.

Who acts: arrangement, married couple, couple · What happens: know, marry, receive, be · To what, where: godmother, wedding present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrangement, married couple, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4631): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 receive	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 couple	det
6	newly	newly	ADV	_	8 married	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 newly	punct
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 couple	amod
9	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 receive	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 receive	aux
11	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 godmother	case
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 godmother	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Babette	case
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 receive	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
20	also	also	ADV	_	19 knew	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 present	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 present	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 present	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 present	det
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 present	compound
26	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	ccomp
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 worth	advmod
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 present	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 concession	det
30	concession	concession	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worth	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	arrangement			alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	marry	participle				newly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	receive	would	the married couple		Babette's godmother		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from godmother=Source
4	know	past	arrangement				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	couple	a wedding present			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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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