Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 24
I was, as I have said, a boy, and only stood by and listened to what the others said; but it filled me with a strange emotion to listen to the old man, and to watch how the color rose in his cheeks as he spoke of the days of their courtship, of how beautiful she was, and how many little tricks he had been guilty of, that he might meet her.
Who acts: others, life, color, man, corpse, many little tricks · What happens: say, stand by, listen, fill, watch, rise · To what, where: I, me, cheeks, corpse · 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 (others, life, color, man), 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 | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boy | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 stood | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 listened | cc |
| 17 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stood | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 listened | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 others | det |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 filled | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 filled | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 filled | nsubj |
| 26 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 filled | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 emotion | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 emotion | det |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 emotion | amod |
| 31 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 filled | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 listen | mark |
| 33 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 filled | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 man | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 listen | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 watch | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 watch | cc |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 watch | mark |
| 41 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | parataxis |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 rose | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 color | det |
| 44 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rose | nsubj |
| 45 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 watch | advcl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 cheeks | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 48 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 rose | obl |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 spoke | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 spoke | nsubj |
| 51 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 rose | advcl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 days | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 days | det |
| 54 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 spoke | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 courtship | case |
| 56 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 courtship | nmod:poss |
| 57 | courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 days | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 beautiful | punct |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 beautiful | case |
| 60 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 61 beautiful | advmod |
| 61 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 rose | conj |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 was | nsubj |
| 63 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 beautiful | ccomp |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 guilty | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 guilty | cc |
| 66 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 67 many | advmod |
| 67 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 tricks | amod |
| 68 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 tricks | amod |
| 69 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 73 guilty | nsubj |
| 70 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 73 guilty | nsubj |
| 71 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 73 guilty | aux |
| 72 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 73 guilty | cop |
| 73 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stood | parataxis |
| 74 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 79 meet | mark |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 79 meet | punct |
| 76 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 79 meet | mark |
| 77 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 79 meet | nsubj |
| 78 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 79 meet | aux |
| 79 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 73 guilty | advcl |
| 80 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 79 meet | obj |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | I | a boy vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand by | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | listen | participle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fill | past | life | me | with a strange emotion | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with emotion=Instrument | |||
| 6 | listen | to-infinitive | life not said here | to the old man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to man=Theme | ||||
| 7 | watch | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | rise | past | the color | man's cheeks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cheek=Location | ||||
| 9 | speak speech: other | past | man | day | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | be | past | corpse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | is | past · perfect | many little tricks | guilty property | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | meet | might | man | corpse | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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