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title: I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive gener… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive generations that dwelt there; and now I'm going to tell you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters. Who acts: I, successive generations. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 5

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I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive generations that dwelt there; and now I'm going to tell you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters.

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**Who acts:** I, successive generations · **What happens:** know, dwell, go, tell · **To what, where:** walls, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:212:5
# text = I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the successive generations that dwelt there; and now I'm going to tell you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	Daa	Daa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | I | walls *= wall* |  |  |  | that noble lords and ladies and the successive generations *obl*; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the successive generations |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  | of Waldemar and castle's daughters | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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