Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 18

To repeat it all would require years and days; for year by year it is telling the old stories, sometimes short ones, sometimes long ones, according to its whim; it tells of old times, of the dark hard times, thus:

Who acts: place · What happens: repeat, require, tell, accord · To what, where: old stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 repeat	mark
2	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 require	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 require	aux
6	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 repeat	ccomp
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 require	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 days	cc
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 years	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 year	case
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 year	nmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 telling	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 telling	aux
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 repeat	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stories	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stories	amod
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 telling	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ones	punct
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 ones	advmod
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 telling	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ones	punct
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 ones	advmod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 telling	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 whim	punct
30	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 whim	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 according	fixed
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 whim	nmod:poss
33	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 tells	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tells	nsubj
36	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 repeat	parataxis
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 times	case
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 times	amod
39	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tells	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 times	punct
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 times	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 times	det
43	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 times	amod
44	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 times	amod
45	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tells	obl:unmarked
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thus	punct
47	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 repeat	advmod
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	to-infinitive				thus property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	require	would	place		year		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	place	the old stories	year	short ones obl; long ones obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	present	place		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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