Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 50

Ah, how happy he would have been on that festal day in Copenhagen with little Joanna; but he still remained at Kjoge, and had never seen the great city, though the town is not five miles from it.

Who acts: father, town · What happens: have, remain, not see, be · To what, where: Kjoge, great city, five miles, city

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 (father, town), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 would	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 would	xcomp
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 have	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 day	det
11	festal	festal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 been	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Copenhagen	case
14	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 Joanna	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Joanna	amod
17	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Copenhagen	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 remained	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 remained	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remained	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 remained	advmod
22	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Kjoge	case
24	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 remained	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seen	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seen	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 remained	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 city	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 city	amod
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 miles	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	40 miles	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 miles	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 miles	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 five	advmod
39	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 miles	nummod
40	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 seen	obl
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 miles	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	infinitive					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past	father		Kjoge	still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kjoge=Location
3	not see	past · perfect	father not said here	the great city			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus
4	is a	present	the town	five miles	city		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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