Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 124

The sparrows assembled in dozens upon the wild vines, and chattered all together as loud as they could, but not about the old house; none of them could remember it, for many years had passed by, so many indeed, that the little boy was now a man, and a really good man too, and his parents were very proud of him.

Who acts: sparrows, none, little boy, parents · What happens: assemble, chatter, remember, pass by, be · To what, where: dozens, railing, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrows, none, little boy, parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	nsubj
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 dozens	case
5	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	obl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 vines	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vines	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vines	amod
9	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chattered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chattered	cc
12	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assembled	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 together	advmod
14	together	together	ADV	_	16 loud	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 loud	advmod
16	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chattered	xcomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 loud	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 house	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 house	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 house	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	26 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembled	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 remember	punct
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	32 remember	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 none	nmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	aux
32	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 assembled	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remember	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 years	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 years	case
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 years	amod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 passed	obl
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 passed	aux
39	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 remember	ccomp
40	by	by	ADP	_	39 passed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 many	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assembled	conj
44	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 man	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 man	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 boy	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 boy	amod
49	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 man	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 man	cop
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 man	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 man	det
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembled	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 man	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 man	cc
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 man	det
57	really	really	ADV	_	58 good	advmod
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 man	amod
59	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembled	conj
60	too	too	ADV	_	59 man	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 proud	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 proud	cc
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 parents	nmod:poss
64	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 proud	nsubj
65	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 proud	cop
66	very	very	ADV	_	67 proud	advmod
67	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assembled	conj
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 him	case
69	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 proud	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	participle	the sparrows		dozens		upon the wild vines; about the old house	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chatter	past	the sparrows not said here				loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	could	none	railing				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
4	pass by	past · perfect				year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	the little boy	a man		now		tree rules
6	is	past	house's parents				of house; proud 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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