Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 33

In such sweet remembrance was the old bell cherished by the boy, who grew up in poverty to be tall and slender, with a freckled complexion and hair almost red; but his eyes were clear and blue as the deep sea, and what was his career to be?

Who acts: old bell, eyes · What happens: be, cherish, grow up, freckle · To what, where: old bell, such sweet remembrance, poverty, career

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 (old bell, eyes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 remembrance	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remembrance	amod
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remembrance	amod
4	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bell	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bell	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bell	amod
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	nsubj
9	cherished	cherish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bell	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cherished	obl:agent
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 grew	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 poverty	case
18	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 tall	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 tall	cop
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slender	cc
23	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tall	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 complexion	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 complexion	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 complexion	det
27	freckled	freckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 complexion	amod
28	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hair	cc
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 complexion	conj
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 red	advmod
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 complexion	appos
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 clear	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 clear	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eyes	nmod:poss
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 clear	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 clear	cop
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 blue	cc
40	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 clear	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sea	det
43	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sea	amod
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 clear	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 career	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 career	cc
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 career	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 career	cop
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 career	nmod:poss
50	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 be	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 career	acl
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old bell	such sweet remembrance		tree rules
2	cherish	participle		the old bell not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow up	past	the old bell		poverty	with a freckled complexion and hair	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=Location
4	is	to-infinitive	the old bell not said here			tall property	tree rules
5	be		the old bell not said here				tree rules
6	freckle	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is	past	boy's eyes			as the deep sea; clear property	tree rules
8	be		boy's eyes not said here				tree rules
9	is a	past		boy's career			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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