Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 2

The story I am going to tell you happened a great many years ago, so it is well to hear it now before it is forgotten.

Who acts: story, you · What happens: go, tell, happen, be, forget · To what, where: story · 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 (story, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 years	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 happened	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 hear	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	cop
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hear	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	obj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 hear	advmod
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 forgotten	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forgotten	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 forgotten	aux:pass
27	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hear	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	the story				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the story not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past	you			ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	story		now	hear, well property	tree rules
5	forget	present · passive		story			tree rules

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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