Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 20

"One never forgets a feast like that, however old one may grow," said grandfather.

Who acts: One, old one, grandfather · What happens: not forget, grow, say · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, old one, grandfather), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 forgets	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 forgets	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forgets	advmod
4	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgets	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 feast	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grow	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	14 grow	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grow	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgets	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgets	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 forgets	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgets	parataxis
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forget in a quote	present	One	a feast	like that	tree rules
2	grow in a quote	may	old one		however property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	grandfather			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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