Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 14

They were a very worthy old couple, I can remember them well in the days of my boyhood.

Who acts: people, I · What happens: be, remember · To what, where: worthy old couple, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 couple	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 couple	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 couple	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 worthy	advmod
5	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couple	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couple	amod
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remember	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 remember	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 remember	aux
11	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 couple	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remember	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 remember	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 days	det
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 remember	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 boyhood	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 boyhood	nmod:poss
19	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 days	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 couple	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	people	a worthy old couple					tree rules
2	remember	can	I	people			day	well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=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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