Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 27

Ah, well, so it is; then I was but a child, and now I am old, as old as Preben Schwane then was.

Who acts: hope, I · What happens: be · To what, where: child

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 (hope, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	well	well	INTJ	_	1 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 is	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 child	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 child	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 child	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 child	cop
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 child	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 old	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 old	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 old	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 old	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 old	cop
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 old	advmod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 old	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 Preben	case
25	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 old	obl
26	Schwane	Schwane	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Preben	flat
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 was	advmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	hope				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	I	a child	then		tree rules
3	is	present	I		now	old property	tree rules
4	is	past	I not said here			as Preben; old property	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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