Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 7

This was a long time ago, so long indeed that our grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers, would speak of those days as "olden times;" indeed, many centuries have passed since then.

Who acts: This, grandfathers, many centuries · What happens: be, speak, pass · 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 (This, grandfathers, many centuries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7791): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ago	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ago	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ago	advmod
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 speak	mark
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grandfathers	nmod:poss
13	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 speak	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grandfathers	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grandfathers	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 grandfathers	advmod
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grandfathers	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 great	punct
19	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grandfathers	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grandfathers	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 speak	aux
22	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 long	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 days	det
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 speak	obl
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 times	case
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 times	punct
28	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 times	amod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 speak	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 passed	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 times	punct
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	37 passed	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 passed	punct
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 centuries	amod
35	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 passed	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 passed	aux
37	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 ago	parataxis
38	since	since	ADP	_	39 then	case
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 passed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ago	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This	time	ago, long property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	would	our grandfathers and great grandfathers	day; time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	present · perfect	many centuries		indeed property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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