Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 42

They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now. '

Who acts: wife, old Granny · What happens: have, celebrate, not recollect, sit, look, marry · To what, where: great grand children, fiftieth anniversary, date, tree

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, old Granny), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 great	punct
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 celebrate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 celebrate	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 celebrate	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 celebrate	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 celebrate	mark
13	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 anniversary	det
15	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 anniversary	amod
16	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 celebrate	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 marriage	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 marriage	nmod:poss
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anniversary	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 recollect	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 recollect	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 recollect	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 recollect	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 recollect	advmod
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 recollect	advmod
26	recollect	recollect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 date	det
28	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 recollect	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sat	cc
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Granny	amod
32	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 sat	nsubj
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 looked	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 looked	cc
39	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sat	conj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 pleased	advmod
41	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 looked	xcomp
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 now	case
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 looked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	wife	great grand children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	celebrate	past	wife not said here	the fiftieth anniversary of wife's marriage		soon property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme
3	not recollect	could	wife	the date		exactly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme
4	sit	past	old Granny		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
5	look	past	old Granny not said here			pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	marry		wife				nom marriage «state 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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