Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 59

“I find it so very delightful here, and then all the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them, they come and visit here.”

Who acts: little boy, thoughts · What happens: find, bring, come, visit · To what, where: grave, old thoughts

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 (little boy, thoughts), 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 find	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 delightful	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 delightful	advmod
7	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	xcomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 find	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thoughts	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thoughts	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 thoughts	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 thoughts	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thoughts	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thoughts	amod
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 bring	mark
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 bring	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	aux
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thoughts	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 visit	cc
28	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	conj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 visit	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	the little boy = boy	grave	here	all old thoughts obl; delightful property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	bring in a quote	may	thoughts = thought	all old thoughts		with drawers = drawer	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	come in a quote	present	thoughts = thought				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	visit in a quote	present	thoughts = thought not said here		here		vn meet-36.3-1 «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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