Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 92

I remained there three weeks, and it was more like three thousand years, for I read all that has ever been written in poetry or prose; and I may say, in truth, that I saw and learnt everything."

Who acts: I, creature · What happens: remain, be, read, write, say, see · To what, where: that, poetry, truth, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, creature), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 remained	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weeks	nummod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remained	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 years	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 years	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 years	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 years	cop
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 years	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 years	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thousand	compound
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remained	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 read	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 read	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 read	nsubj
18	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 written	det:predet
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 written	nsubj:pass
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 written	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 written	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 written	aux:pass
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 read	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 poetry	case
26	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 written	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 prose	cc
28	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 poetry	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 say	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	aux
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remained	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 truth	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 truth	case
36	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 say	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saw	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 saw	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 saw	nsubj
40	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 say	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 learnt	cc
42	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 saw	conj
43	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	42 learnt	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	past	I		there	week	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	creature			like thousand years	tree rules
3	read	past	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	write	present · perfect · passive		that	poetry or prose	ever	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in poetry=Destination
5	say speech: assert	may	I	truth			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
6	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	learn	past	I not said here	everything			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

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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