Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 30

I know very well when the golden wedding is to take place,' she said; but they did not hear it--they were talking of bygone days.

Who acts: I, golden wedding, mother, wife · What happens: know, be, say, not hear, talk · To what, where: wedding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, golden wedding, mother, wife), 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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 know	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 take	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wedding	amod
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 take	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 hear	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 talking	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 talking	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 talking	aux
27	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hear	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	bygone	bygone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 talking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	present	the golden wedding			take property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not hear	past · do-support	wife	wedding			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	talk	past · progressive	wife		day		vn talk-37.5 «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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