Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 76

Then they sang songs, and John remembered that he had learnt those pretty songs when he was a little boy.

Who acts: deal, John · What happens: sing, remember, learn, be · To what, where: songs, pretty songs, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, John), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sang	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 remembered	cc
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 learnt	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learnt	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 learnt	aux
12	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 remembered	ccomp
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 songs	det
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 songs	amod
15	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 learnt	obj
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 boy	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 boy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learnt	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	deal	songs	then	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	remember	past	John			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	learn	past · perfect	John	that pretty songs		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
4	is a	past	John	a little boy		tree rules

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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