Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 38

And the old man who had spoken of all this shook his head mournfully, and said, "Forgotten!

Who acts: this · What happens: speak, shake, say, forget · To what, where: old man, head · 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 (this), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 spoken	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	nsubj:pass
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spoken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 shook	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 shook	det:predet
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obj
14	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	11 shook	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shook	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Forgotten	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Forgotten	punct
20	Forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the old man		tree rules
2	shake	past	this	man's head	mournfully property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	this not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forget in a quote	participle				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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