Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 16

I visited him at least once a year, generally directly after New Year's day, and then he always spoke of this and that which the change of the year had put into his head.

Who acts: I, blacking, year · What happens: visit, speak, put, change · To what, where: blacking, change, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, blacking, year), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 visited	nsubj
2	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 visited	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 once	obl
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 visited	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
10	generally	generally	ADV	_	11 directly	advmod
11	directly	directly	ADV	_	16 day	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	16 day	case
13	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Year	compound
14	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Year	case
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visited	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 spoke	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	nsubj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 spoke	advmod
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visited	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 spoke	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 which	mark
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 put	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 change	det
29	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 year	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 change	nmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 spoke	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	I	blacking		day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	blacking			then	of this; always property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past · perfect · passive		the change of the year	blacking's head			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	change		the year					nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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