Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 2

Every time I thought of this story, it seemed to me more and more charming; for it is with stories as it is with many people--they become better as they grow older.

Who acts: I, it, story, stories, people · What happens: think, seem, be, become, grow · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it, story, stories), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	obl
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 seemed	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 charming	cc
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 charming	advmod
16	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stories	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 stories	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stories	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stories	cop
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 stories	case
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 become	nsubj
23	as	as	ADP	_	28 people	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 people	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 people	cop
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 people	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stories	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 become	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 become	nsubj
31	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 become	xcomp
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 grow	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grow	nsubj
35	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 become	advcl
36	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 grow	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I		time	of this story	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	seem	past	it	me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	story			for stories	tree rules
4	is	present	story			as many people	tree rules
5	become	present	stories			good property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	grow	present	people			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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