Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 43

"Thank you for the tin soldier my little friend," said the old man, "and thank you also for coming to see me."

Who acts: old man · What happens: thank, say, come, see · To what, where: little friend, you, Chairs · 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 (old man), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 soldier	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
6	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldier	compound
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thank	cc
20	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 thank	obj
22	also	also	ADV	_	20 thank	advmod
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 coming	mark
24	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thank	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 coming	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		my little friend	you	for the tin soldier	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for soldier=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	come in a quote	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive		Chairs = chair			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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