Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 53

They were happy children in that home of their childhood, the beautiful and fragrant Tree of the Sun. Like all children, they loved to hear stories related to them, and their father told them many things which other children would not have understood; but these were as clever as most grownup people are among us.

Who acts: sons, father, these, people · What happens: be, love, hear, tell, not understand · To what, where: happy children, home, stories, many things, sons, other children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, father, these, people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 children	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 children	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 home	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 home	det
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 childhood	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 childhood	nmod:poss
10	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Tree	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tree	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Tree	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fragrant	cc
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beautiful	conj
16	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 children	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Sun.	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sun.	det
19	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tree	nmod
20	Like	like	ADP	_	22 children	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Tree	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 loved	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loved	nsubj
25	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Tree	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hear	mark
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 loved	xcomp
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hear	obj
29	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 related	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 told	cc
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	nsubj
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 loved	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	iobj
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 things	amod
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 told	obj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 understood	obj
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 children	amod
42	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 understood	nsubj:pass
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 understood	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 understood	advmod
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 understood	aux
46	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 things	acl:relcl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 clever	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 clever	cc
49	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 clever	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 clever	cop
51	as	as	ADV	_	52 clever	advmod
52	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 loved	conj
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 grownup	case
54	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	55 grownup	amod
55	grownup	grownup	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 clever	obl
56	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 us	nsubj
57	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 us	cop
58	among	among	ADP	_	59 us	case
59	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 grownup	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 children	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sons = son	happy children		that home of sons's childhood		tree rules
2	love	past	sons = son					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	stories				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	sons's father	many things	sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient thing=Topic
5	not understand	would · perfect · passive		other children				tree rules
6	is	past	these				as most grownup; clever property	tree rules
7	is	present	people				among us	tree rules

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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