Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 24

How readily he remembered stories and songs that he heard, and how dexterous he was with his fingers!

Who acts: boy · What happens: remember, hear, be · To what, where: stories

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 readily	advmod
2	readily	readily	ADV	_	4 remembered	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remembered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 songs	cc
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stories	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dexterous	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dexterous	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 dexterous	advmod
14	dexterous	dexterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remembered	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fingers	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fingers	cop
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 fingers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fingers	nmod:poss
19	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dexterous	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	boy	stories and songs	readily property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	hear	past	boy			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	boy		with boy's fingers	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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