Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 23

He spoke to my father, and to a few neighbors who were there, of how lonely he should feel now she was gone, and how good and true she, his dead wife, had been during the number of years that they had passed through life together, and how they had become acquainted, and learnt to love each other.

Who acts: man, few neighbors, corpse, neighbors · What happens: speak, be, feel, have, pass, become · To what, where: neighbors, life, each · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, few neighbors, corpse, neighbors), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 neighbors	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 neighbors	cc
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 neighbors	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 neighbors	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 neighbors	amod
11	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spoke	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 there	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 there	cop
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 neighbors	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lonely	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lonely	case
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 lonely	advmod
18	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feel	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 feel	aux
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lonely	parataxis
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 gone	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gone	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	cop
25	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feel	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 good	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 good	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 good	advmod
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gone	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 true	cc
31	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	conj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wife	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wife	amod
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 she	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wife	punct
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	parataxis
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 had	aux
40	during	during	ADP	_	42 number	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 number	det
42	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 been	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 years	case
44	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 number	nmod
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 passed	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 passed	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 passed	aux
48	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 years	acl:relcl
49	through	through	ADP	_	50 life	case
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 passed	obl
51	together	together	ADV	_	48 passed	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 become	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 become	cc
54	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	57 become	advmod
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 become	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 become	aux
57	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 had	conj
58	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 become	xcomp
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 learnt	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 learnt	cc
61	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 had	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 love	mark
63	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 learnt	xcomp
64	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	63 love	obj
65	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 each	fixed
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man				to my father; to a few neighbors	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to father=Co-Agent
2	is	past	a few neighbors				there property	tree rules
3	feel	should	man					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	corpse			now	gone property	tree rules
5	be		corpse not said here					tree rules
6	have	participle	corpse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	pass	past · perfect · passive		neighbors = neighbor	life		together property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme
8	become	past · perfect	neighbors = neighbor				acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	learn	past	corpse not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	love	to-infinitive	corpse not said here	each				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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