Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 64

I remembered the man who placed a white stick in his mouth by which he could make himself and the stick invisible.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: remember, place, make · To what, where: man, white stick, mouth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stick	amod
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 make	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 placed	advcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 make	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stick	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stick	det
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 himself	conj
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	I	the man			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	place	past	the man	a white stick	man's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in mouth=Destination
3	make	could	man	man		invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product

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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