Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 22

“How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,” said an old knight.

Who acts: much bird, musical box, old knight · What happens: remind, belong, say · To what, where: old knight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much bird, musical box, old knight), 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	_	6 reminds	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	nsubj
6	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reminds	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 box	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 belonged	nsubj
13	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 box	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Empress	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Empress	nmod:poss
16	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Empress	amod
17	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 belonged	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reminds	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reminds	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knight	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knight	amod
23	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other in a quote	present	the much bird	a old knight = knight	of the musical box	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of box=Topic
2	belong in a quote	past	the musical box		to our blessed Empress	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	a old knight			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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