Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 32

The boy never forgot what his mother told him, and the tones of the old bell reverberated in his heart till he reached manhood.

Who acts: boy, mother, tones · What happens: not forget, tell, reverberate, reach, intonate · To what, where: boy, heart, manhood, old bell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, mother, tones), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forgot	advmod
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 told	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgot	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reverberated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reverberated	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tones	det
13	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reverberated	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 bell	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bell	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bell	amod
17	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tones	nmod
18	reverberated	reverberate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 forgot	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 heart	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reverberated	obl
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 reached	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reverberated	advcl
25	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not forget	past	the boy				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	boy's mother		boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
3	reverberate	participle	the tones of the old bell			boy's heart	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
4	reach	past	boy	manhood			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme
5	intonate			the old bell			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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