Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 5

I did not at first understand all this, but afterwards he explained the whole story to me; and here it is:--

Who acts: I, man · What happens: not understand, explain, be · To what, where: this, whole story, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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	6 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 understand	obl
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 this	det:predet
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 understand	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explained	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 explained	cc
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	13 explained	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 explained	nsubj
13	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 story	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 story	amod
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 explained	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 explained	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 understand	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 is	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 here	cop
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 --	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 understand	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	I	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	explain speech: assert	past	man	the whole story	me	afterwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to i=Recipient
3	is	present				here property	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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