Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 38

Jurgen while still a boy, and also when he was older, used phrases from the eel-breeder's story on various occasions, so it will be as well for us to listen to it.

Who acts: Jurgen, thimbleful, us · What happens: be, use, listen · To what, where: thimbleful

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 (Jurgen, thimbleful, us), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 boy	mark
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 boy	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jurgen	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 phrases	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 phrases	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	12 older	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 older	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 older	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 older	cop
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 phrases	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 phrases	amod
15	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Jurgen	appos
16	from	from	ADP	_	22 story	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 breeder	det
18	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breeder	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 eel	punct
20	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 story	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 breeder	case
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 phrases	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 occasions	case
24	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 occasions	amod
25	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 story	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 listen	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 well	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 well	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 well	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 listen	advmod
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 listen	mark
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 listen	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 listen	mark
36	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Jurgen	parataxis
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 listen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Jurgen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jurgen		old property	tree rules
2	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	future	thimbleful		well property	tree rules
4	listen	to-infinitive	us	thimbleful		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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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