Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 138

"Yes, terribly lonely," cried the tin soldier; "still it is delightful not to be forgotten."

Who acts: tin soldier, care · What happens: cry, be, not forget · 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 (tin soldier, care), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lonely	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
4	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	5 lonely	advmod
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
10	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soldier	compound
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 delightful	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 delightful	punct
14	still	still	ADV	_	17 delightful	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 delightful	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 delightful	cop
17	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lonely	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 forgotten	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	21 forgotten	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 forgotten	aux:pass
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 delightful	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the tin soldier			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	care	still	delightful property	tree rules
3	not forget in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	care not said here			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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