Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 117

“Nay, it cannot be he; but he reminds me of a story about a pewter soldier which I had when I was a little boy!”

Who acts: man, young man · What happens: not be, remind, have, be · To what, where: man, young man, pewter soldier, little boy

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young man), 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	_	5 can	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	5 can	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 can	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 he	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 he	cop
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 can	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 reminds	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 reminds	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reminds	nsubj
12	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 can	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 reminds	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 story	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reminds	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	20 soldier	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
19	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soldier	compound
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 story	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 soldier	acl:relcl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 boy	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 boy	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 boy	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	ccomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 boy	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	infinitive		man			tree rules
2	remind speech: other in a quote	present	man		the young man = man	of a story about a pewter soldier	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of story=Topic
3	have in a quote	past	the young man = man	a pewter soldier			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	is a in a quote	past	the young man = man	a little boy			tree rules

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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