Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 44
“'Yes, can't you remember when we were very little,' said the old seaman, 'and ran and played about?
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not remember, be, say, run, play about · To what, where: old seaman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 remember | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 remember | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remember | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 remember | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 remember | nsubj |
| 8 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 little | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 little | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 little | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 little | advmod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remember | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remember | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 remember | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seaman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seaman | amod |
| 19 | seaman | seaman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seaman | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 seaman | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 played | cc |
| 25 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | conj |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 played | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember in a quote | can | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | we | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | the old seaman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run in a quote | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | play about in a quote | past | about property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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: «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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