Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 123
Do you recollect that?" they asked one after another, thus bringing to his remembrance circumstances that made the perspiration stand on his brow.
Who acts: you, chamberlains, remembrance circumstances · What happens: recollect, ask, bring, make · To what, where: that, one, remembrance circumstances, perspiration stand, brow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chamberlains, remembrance circumstances), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 recollect | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 recollect | nsubj |
| 3 | recollect | recollect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 recollect | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollect | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollect | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 bringing | advmod |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 circumstances | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 circumstances | nmod:poss |
| 17 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 circumstances | compound |
| 18 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bringing | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stand | det |
| 22 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stand | compound |
| 23 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 brow | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brow | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recollect | present · do-support | you | that | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | one | after another | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring in a quote | gerund | chamberlains = chamberlain not said here | emperor's remembrance circumstances | thus property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to circumstance=Destination | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | past | emperor's remembrance circumstances | the perspiration stand | emperor's brow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product |
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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