Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 42

Years passed; then one day she met the old friend and sweetheart in the street; he looked ill and miserable, and she could not help asking him, "How are you?"

Who acts: Years, girl, God · What happens: pass, meet, look, not help, ask, be · To what, where: old friend, street, God, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, girl, God), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 met	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl:unmarked
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 friend	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sweetheart	cc
13	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friend	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 street	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 street	det
16	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 looked	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 miserable	cc
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ill	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 help	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 help	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 help	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 help	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 help	advmod
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 passed	advcl
29	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 help	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 you	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 you	punct
33	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 you	advmod
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 you	cop
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 passed	parataxis
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Years						tree rules
2	meet	past	girl	the old friend and sweetheart		the street	then; day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
3	look	past	God					ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not help	could	girl						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	gerund	girl not said here		God				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	present		you					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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