Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 9

"Mrs. Meta Mogen," said the fellow, "do you still remember how my father, when your husband was still alive, had to ride on the wooden horse?

Who acts: Mrs., you, husband, father · What happens: say, remember, be, have, ride · To what, where: fellow · 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 (Mrs., you, husband, father), 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	_	2 Mrs.	punct
2	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	Meta	Meta	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mrs.	flat
4	Mogen	Mogen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mrs.	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mrs.	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mrs.	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 remember	advmod
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 had	advmod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 alive	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 alive	mark
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 alive	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 alive	cop
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 alive	advmod
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 father	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ride	mark
29	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 horse	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horse	det
32	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 horse	amod
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ride	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Mrs.	the fellow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic
2	remember in a quote	present · do-support	you		still		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	your husband		still	alive property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	my father				tree rules
5	ride in a quote	to-infinitive	my father not said here			on the wooden horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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