Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 17

I will tell the story of three of these visits, and will reproduce his own words whenever I can remember them.

Who acts: I, blacking · What happens: tell, reproduce, remember, word · To what, where: story, own words, words · 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), 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 three	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 story	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 visits	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 visits	det
10	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 three	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reproduce	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reproduce	cc
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reproduce	aux
14	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 words	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reproduce	obj
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 remember	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 remember	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 remember	aux
21	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reproduce	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 remember	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	the story of three of this visits		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	reproduce	future	I not said here	blacking's own words		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	remember	can	I	words = word	whenever property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	word		blacking			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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