Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 134

It is very likely that this is really the same soldier," said she, "and I will take care of him, and always remember what you have told me; but some day you must show me the old man's grave."

Who acts: story, this, wife, I, you · What happens: be, say, take, remember, tell, show · To what, where: same soldier, care, you, me, grave · 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 (story, this, wife, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 soldier	mark
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 soldier	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 soldier	cop
8	really	really	ADV	_	11 soldier	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soldier	amod
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	parataxis
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	conj
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remember	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 remember	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 remember	advmod
28	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 told	obj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 remember	ccomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 show	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 show	cc
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 day	det
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 show	obl:unmarked
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 show	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 show	aux
40	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 show	iobj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 grave	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 man	case
46	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 show	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	story				likely property	tree rules
2	is a	present	this	the same soldier				tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	take	future	I	care			of riddance	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
5	remember	infinitive	I not said here				always property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		you	me			tree rules
7	show	must	you	the old man's grave	me	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient grave=Topic

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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