Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 17

How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be on intimate terms appear to us as if dead, and yet they are still alive--only we have not thought of them for such a long time, whom we imagined we should retain in our memories for ever, and share every joy and sorrow with them.

Who acts: we, intimate terms, terms, many · What happens: use, be, not think, imagine, retain, share · To what, where: us, long time, memories, joy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, intimate terms, terms, many), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 share	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 people	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obl
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whom	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	18 appear	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 appear	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 terms	case
16	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 terms	amod
17	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 appear	nsubj
18	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 appear	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 dead	case
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 dead	mark
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appear	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 alive	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 alive	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 alive	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 alive	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 alive	advmod
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 many	parataxis
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
32	only	only	ADV	_	36 thought	advmod
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thought	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 thought	advmod
36	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 alive	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	43 time	case
40	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 time	det:predet
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 time	det
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 time	amod
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 whom	punct
45	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 imagined	obj
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 imagined	nsubj
47	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 time	acl:relcl
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 retain	nsubj
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 retain	aux
50	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 imagined	ccomp
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 memories	case
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 memories	nmod:poss
53	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 retain	obl
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 ever	case
55	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 retain	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 share	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 share	cc
58	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
59	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	60 joy	det
60	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 share	obj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 sorrow	cc
62	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 joy	conj
63	with	with	ADP	_	64 them	case
64	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 sorrow	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 share	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	we				day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	intimate terms		us			as dead; appear property	tree rules
3	is	present	terms = term				yet; still	alive property	tree rules
4	not think speech: other	present · perfect	we				time	of terms = term	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	imagine	past	we	such long time					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Attribute
6	retain	should	we			our memories			tree rules
7	share	present	many of the people	every joy and sorrow with terms					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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