Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 21

So one evening he told them a story that made such a deep impression on the children that they never forgot it; and therefore I think we may as well hear it too, for it is not very long.

Who acts: seller, story, stories, I, we, impression · What happens: tell, make, not forget, think, hear, not be · To what, where: story, stories, deep impression, children, impression · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (seller, story, stories, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 story	acl:relcl
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 impression	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 impression	det
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 impression	amod
14	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 impression	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 forgot	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgot	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 forgot	advmod
21	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 children	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgot	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hear	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 think	cc
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	27 think	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
27	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hear	advcl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hear	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hear	aux
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 hear	cc
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hear	obj
34	too	too	ADV	_	32 hear	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 long	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	41 long	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 long	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 long	cop
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 long	advmod
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 long	advmod
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hear	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	seller	a story	stories = story	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	make	past	a story	such deep impression			on the children	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
3	not forget	past	stories = story	the children				tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	I				therefore property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	may	we	impression				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	not is	present	impression				long property	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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