Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 47
"But I was there seven-and-thirty times," said our aunt, "and I shall always remember Mr. Sivertsen for that."
Who acts: aunt · What happens: be, say, remember · To what, where: Sivertsen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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 there | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 there | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 there | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 seven | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 times | cc |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 times | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 times | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 16 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 remember | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 remember | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 remember | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 remember | advmod |
| 23 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sivertsen | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Sivertsen | Sivertsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 remember | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 remember | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 remember | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | our aunt = aunt | seven obl; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | our aunt | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | shall | our aunt = aunt | Sivertsen Mr. | for that; always property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sivertsen=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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