Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 68
He never forgot it, nor the lime-trees; the child's soul treasured up these memories of beauty and fragrance to gladden the old man.
Who acts: Jurgen, soul · What happens: not forget, treasure up, gladden · To what, where: air, memories, old man
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, soul), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 forgot | advmod |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 trees | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 8 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 lime | punct |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forgot | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 treasured | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 child | case |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treasured | nsubj |
| 16 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 treasured | compound:prt |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 memories | det |
| 19 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 treasured | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 memories | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fragrance | cc |
| 23 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 gladden | mark |
| 25 | gladden | gladden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 treasured | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gladden | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past | Jurgen | air | the lime trees obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | treasure up | past | the child's soul | this memories of beauty and fragrance | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer memory=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gladden | to-infinitive | the child's soul not said here | the old man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
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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