Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 163
How much came back to his remembrance as he looked through the tears once more on his native town!
Who acts: much, Anthony · What happens: come back, look, remember · To what, where: remembrance
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 (much, Anthony), 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 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 remembrance | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 remembrance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 looked | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tears | det |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 looked | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 town | nmod:poss |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 town | amod |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | much | Anthony's remembrance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to remembrance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Anthony | on Anthony's native town; through the tears | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through tear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember | Anthony | nom remembrance «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: «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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