Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 28

"I have made a discovery," he says, "the greatest that has been made for centuries; and they have kept me locked up here for more than twenty years!"

Who acts: iron, pictures · What happens: make, say, keep, lock up · To what, where: discovery, that, pictures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron, pictures), 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 made	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 discovery	det
6	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 greatest	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 greatest	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 says	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	obl
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 greatest	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 centuries	case
20	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 kept	aux
25	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 kept	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 locked	compound:prt
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 locked	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 years	case
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	33 twenty	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	31 more	fixed
33	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 locked	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · perfect	iron	a discovery			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product
2	say speech: express	present	iron				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that		century	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	keep in a quote	present · perfect · passive		pictures = picture			tree rules
5	lock up in a quote	participle	pictures = picture not said here		here	year	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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