Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 21

Nor did he forget it, though he saw many other grand spectacles in his time, and could tell about them too; but it was most pleasant of all to hear him tell about the shield that was brought in the town from the old to the new court-house.

Who acts: Nor, feast · What happens: forget, see, tell, be, hear, bring · To what, where: feast, many other grand spectacles, Nor, shield, town · 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 (Nor, feast), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forget	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	parataxis
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spectacles	amod
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spectacles	amod
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spectacles	amod
13	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 time	nmod:poss
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spectacles	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saw	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	obl
23	too	too	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pleasant	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 pleasant	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pleasant	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pleasant	cop
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 pleasant	advmod
29	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 pleasant	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 hear	mark
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pleasant	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hear	obj
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hear	xcomp
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 shield	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shield	det
38	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 brought	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 brought	aux:pass
41	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 shield	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 town	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 town	det
44	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 brought	obl
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 old	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 old	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 brought	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	53 house	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 house	det
50	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 house	amod
51	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 house	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 court	punct
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 old	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · do-support	Nor	feast				tree rules
2	see	past	Nor	many other grand spectacles		in Nor's time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	could	Nor not said here				about spectacles = spectacle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about they=Topic
4	is	past	feast				of all; pleasant property	tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive	feast not said here	Nor				tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Nor not said here				about the shield	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about shield=Topic
7	bring	past · passive		the shield	the town		from the old	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from old=Initial_Location

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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