Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 132

Let me see him," said the young man, and then he smiled and shook his head, and said, "It can scarcely be the same, but it reminds me of something that happened to one of my tin soldiers when I was a little boy."

Who acts: me, young man, riddance, head, I · What happens: let, see, say, smile, shake, be · To what, where: me, riddance, head, one, little boy · 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 (me, young man, riddance, head), 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	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smiled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smiled	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 smiled	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smiled	nsubj
15	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shook	cc
17	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smiled	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shook	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smiled	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 same	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 same	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 same	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 same	aux
27	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	30 same	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 same	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 same	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reminds	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 reminds	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reminds	nsubj
34	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 reminds	iobj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 something	case
37	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 reminds	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 happened	nsubj
39	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 something	acl:relcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 happened	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 soldiers	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 soldiers	nmod:poss
44	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 soldiers	compound
45	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
46	when	when	SCONJ	_	51 boy	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 boy	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 boy	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 boy	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 boy	amod
51	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reminds	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 reminds	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 reminds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
2	see	infinitive	me not said here	riddance				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the young man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smile in a quote	past	riddance			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake in a quote	past	riddance not said here	riddance's head				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	riddance not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	can	head				same, scarcely property	tree rules
8	remind speech: other	present	head		me		of something	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of something=Topic
9	happen	past			one of my tin soldiers			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is a	past	I	a little boy				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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