Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 33

“I thank you for the pewter soldier, my little friend!” said the old man.

Who acts: old man · What happens: thank, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old 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	_	3 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 soldier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
7	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldier	amod
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soldier	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the old man = man		you			for the pewter soldier	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for soldier=Attribute
2	say speech: express	past	the old man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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