Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 19

"How much the bird reminds me of the musical box of the late lamented empress," said an old courtier, "it has exactly the same tone, the same execution."

Who acts: bird, old courtier · What happens: remind, lament, say, have · To what, where: much, old courtier, same tone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, old courtier), 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	_	6 reminds	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reminds	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	nsubj
6	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reminds	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 box	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 empress	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 empress	det
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 empress	amod
15	lamented	lament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 empress	amod
16	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reminds	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 reminds	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 courtier	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 courtier	amod
22	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 has	nsubj
26	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	30 tone	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tone	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tone	amod
30	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 has	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 execution	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 execution	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 execution	amod
34	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tone	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other in a quote	present	the bird	much	a old courtier = courtier	of the musical box of the late lamented empress	tree rules
2	lament in a quote	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	a old courtier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	bird	the same tone and the same execution			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient

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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