Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 26

Then the mother reminded her little boy of what a useful bell this had been for many hundred years.

Who acts: mother, this · What happens: remind, be · To what, where: little boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reminded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reminded	nsubj
4	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boy	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reminded	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 boy	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bell	det
11	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bell	amod
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 years	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 years	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 years	cop
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 years	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reminded	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	the mother		mother's little boy		then		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	this				for many hundred years		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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