Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 91

I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor's there--in the warm lands.”

Who acts: I, friend, thou · What happens: be, hear, sit down, tell, go, see · To what, where: old friend, little, me, opposite neighbor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, friend, thou), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 glad	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 fortune	case
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 fortune	nmod:poss
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fortune	amod
10	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 friend	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friend	amod
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tell	obl:unmarked
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 gone	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 tell	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 gone	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seen	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 seen	obj
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 seen	nsubj
33	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sit	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 neighbor	case
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neighbor	nmod:poss
37	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 neighbor	amod
38	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	obl
39	's	's	PART	_	38 neighbor	case
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 seen	advmod
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 lands	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 lands	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 lands	det
44	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 lands	amod
45	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 seen	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				extremely, glad property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here				of thy good fortune	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus
3	sit down	infinitive		old friend				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a little	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	go	present · perfect	friend				with thee	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thou=Beneficiary
6	see	present · perfect	thou			our opposite neighbor; there	in the warm lands	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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