Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 25

But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Englishman, yet months had passed since she had seen him or even thought of him.

Who acts: Babette · What happens: know, dreamt, pass, see, think · To what, where: something, months, Englishman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreamt	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamt	aux
6	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 knew	ccomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 dreamt	obj
8	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 Englishman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Englishman	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Englishman	amod
12	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 frightful	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 passed	punct
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 passed	cc
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 passed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passed	aux
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dreamt	conj
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 passed	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 thought	advmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 seen	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Babette			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dreamt	past · perfect	Babette	something		tree rules
3	pass	past · perfect · passive		months		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
4	see	past · perfect	Babette	Englishman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	participle	Babette not said here		of Englishman	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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