Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 253

No one knew; no one remembered him, except the bright star that had gleamed for thousands of years.

Who acts: one, bright star · What happens: know, remember, gleam · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, bright star), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 remembered	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remembered	nsubj
7	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 remembered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 star	punct
10	except	except	ADP	_	13 star	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 star	det
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 star	amod
13	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remembered	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gleamed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gleamed	aux
16	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 star	acl:relcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 thousands	case
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gleamed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 years	case
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thousands	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	remember	past	no one	way	except the bright star	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	gleam	past · perfect	the bright star		for thousands of years	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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