Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 51
I have remembered his name, for one remembers what is bad--a trait of him often comes into my thoughts, and I wish one could say the story is not true.
Who acts: I, one, trait, story, Louis, my · What happens: remember, be, come, wish, say, not be · To what, where: name, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, trait, story), 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 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | aux |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remembers | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 remembers | nsubj |
| 9 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 bad | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bad | cop |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remembers | ccomp |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trait | det |
| 15 | trait | trait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trait | nmod |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remembers | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 thoughts | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 comes | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wish | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 wish | nsubj |
| 26 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 27 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 say | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 say | aux |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wish | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 story | det |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 true | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 true | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 true | advmod |
| 34 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 say | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · perfect | I | Louis's name | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | one | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | present | a trait of Louis | my thoughts | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into thought=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | could | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is | present | the story | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | name | Louis | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | think | my | nom thought «cognition 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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