Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 79

Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations that very morning; but the old people had forgotten it, although they were able to remember all that had happened many years ago.

Who acts: people, hand, gratulations, old people, that · What happens: come, know, be, morning, forget, remember · To what, where: children, enough, day, hand · 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 (people, hand, gratulations, old people), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 children	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grand	punct
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 enough	advmod
17	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knew	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 day	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 day	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 day	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enough	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 anniversary	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 anniversary	det
25	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 anniversary	amod
26	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 day	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 knew	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 gratulations	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 gratulations	nmod:poss
33	gratulations	gratulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 morning	nsubj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 morning	advmod
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gratulations	acl:relcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 forgotten	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 forgotten	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 people	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 forgotten	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forgotten	aux
43	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forgotten	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 able	punct
46	although	although	SCONJ	_	49 able	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 able	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 able	cop
49	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 forgotten	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 remember	mark
51	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 able	xcomp
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 happened	det:predet
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 happened	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 happened	aux
55	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 remember	ccomp
56	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 years	amod
57	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 ago	obl:unmarked
58	ago	ago	ADV	_	55 happened	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past		people's children	people's grand children obl; soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme
2	know	past	people	enough		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
3	is a	past	hand	the day	of the fiftieth anniversary	tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	people not said here		with people's gratulations	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	morning		people's gratulations			tree rules
6	forget	past · perfect	the old people	hand		tree rules
7	is	past	people		able property	tree rules
8	remember	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	happen	past · perfect	that		ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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