Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 56
"Oh," replied the old man, "I have pleasant thoughts of all that has passed, recalled by memory; and now you are come to visit me, and that is very pleasant."
Who acts: old man, pleasant thoughts, that · What happens: reply, have, pass, recall, come, visit · To what, where: pleasant thoughts, you, old 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 (old man, pleasant thoughts, that), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 thoughts | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thoughts | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recalled | punct |
| 21 | recalled | recall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 passed | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 memory | case |
| 23 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recalled | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 come | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux:pass |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 visit | mark |
| 31 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | advcl |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 visit | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pleasant | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pleasant | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 pleasant | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 pleasant | cop |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 pleasant | advmod |
| 38 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 pleasant | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the old man = man | pleasant thoughts of all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | present · perfect | pleasant thoughts of all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | recall in a quote | participle | pleasant thoughts of all not said here | by memory | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · passive | you | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | visit in a quote | to-infinitive | the old man = man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | that | pleasant 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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