Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 111

How well can she recall persons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth “every inch a man,” resembling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams.

Who acts: many, we, persons, inch, man, our · What happens: recall, not think, step, man, resemble, become · To what, where: persons, mind, real personages, heroes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, we, persons, inch), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 recall	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 recall	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 recall	nsubj
5	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recall	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mind	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recall	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 thought	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 thought	advmod
16	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 recall	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thought	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 step	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 suddenly	advmod
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	23 step	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 step	nsubj
23	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 recall	parataxis
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 step	advmod
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 inch	det
27	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 man	nsubj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 step	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
32	resembling	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 man	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 personages	det
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 personages	amod
35	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 resembling	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 features	punct
37	even	even	ADV	_	41 features	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 features	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 features	det
40	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 features	amod
41	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 resembling	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 become	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 become	cc
44	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 step	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 heroes	det
46	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 become	xcomp
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 heroines	cc
48	heroines	heroine	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 heroes	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 world	case
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 world	nmod:poss
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heroes	nmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 dreams	case
53	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 world	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	can	many	persons	our mind		well property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to mind=Destination
2	not think speech: other	present · perfect	we			year		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	step	present	persons = person				forth, suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	man in a quote		every inch					tree rules
5	resemble	gerund	a man not said here	the real personages			to the finest features	tree rules
6	become	infinitive	persons = person not said here	the heroes of our world of dreams or heroines				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	mind		our					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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