Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 122

The more he talked the more he remembered, and then he thought to himself, "Those were happy days, but they may come again.

Who acts: old, story · What happens: talk, remember, think, be, come · To what, where: old, happy days · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old, story), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 more	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 talked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 more	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 remembered	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 thought	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 days	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 days	punct
18	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 days	det
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 days	cop
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thought	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talked	parataxis
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	talk	past	old				tree rules
2	remember	past	old				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	old		old	then	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past		that happy days			tree rules
5	come in a quote	may	story			again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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