Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 12

From this, all unmarried men, who have attained a certain age, are called, in Denmark, "pepper gentry;" and this must be remembered by all those who wish to understand the story.

Who acts: unmarried men, those · What happens: attain, call, remember, wish, understand · To what, where: certain age, unmarried men, this, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unmarried men, those), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 all	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 men	det
5	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 attained	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 attained	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 attained	aux
10	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 men	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 age	det
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 age	amod
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attained	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Denmark	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Denmark	case
19	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gentry	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 gentry	punct
22	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gentry	compound
23	gentry	gentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Denmark	appos
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gentry	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 gentry	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 remembered	cc
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 remembered	nsubj:pass
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 remembered	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 remembered	aux:pass
30	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 called	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 those	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 those	det:predet
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 remembered	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 wish	nsubj
35	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 those	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 understand	mark
37	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wish	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 story	det
39	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 understand	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	attain	present · perfect	all unmarried men	a certain age	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
2	call	present · passive		all unmarried men	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	remember	must · passive	those	this	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	wish	present			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	understand not said to happen	to-infinitive		the story	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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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