Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 1
All this Jurgen listened to and treasured up in his memory of the happiest days of his childhood--the days of the burial feast.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: listen, treasure up · To what, where: memory
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Jurgen | det |
| 3 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 listened | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 treasured | cc |
| 7 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 listened | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 treasured | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 memory | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 memory | nmod:poss |
| 11 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treasured | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 memory | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 childhood | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 days | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 days | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 days | det |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 days | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 24 | burial | burial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feast | amod |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 days | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | this Jurgen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | treasure up | participle | this Jurgen not said here | Jurgen's memory of the happiest days of Jurgen's childhood and the days of the burial feast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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