Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 35

That would be too long a tale to tell in our busy time, but it really happened, and the most important events have yet to be told.

Who acts: That, it, important events · What happens: be, tell, happen, have · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, it, important events), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 tale	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tale	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 tale	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tale	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 time	nmod:poss
12	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 happened	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happened	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 happened	advmod
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 events	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 important	advmod
23	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 events	amod
24	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	parataxis
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 told	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 have	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	That	a tale		long property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	the important events		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	the important events not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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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