Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 10

I remember when I went out to a picnic with the furrier's family, on the day his daughter was betrothed,--it seems as if it only happened yesterday.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: remember, go out, betroth, seem, happen · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	ccomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 picnic	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 picnic	det
9	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 furrier	det
12	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 family	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 furrier	case
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 betrothed	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 betrothed	obl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 betrothed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 betrothed	aux:pass
22	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seems	nsubj
26	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 betrothed	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 happened	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 happened	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 happened	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 happened	advmod
31	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seems	ccomp
32	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happened	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go out	past	I			to a picnic; with the furrier's family; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with family=Co-Agent
3	betroth	past · passive		furrier's daughter	day		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	seem	present	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	it		yesterday		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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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