Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 100

He kissed us all, and had so much to tell of what he had seen of the great ocean, of the fortifications at Malta, and of the marvellous sepulchres of Egypt, that I looked up to him with a kind of veneration.

Who acts: Aphtanides, that · What happens: kiss, have, tell, see, look up · To what, where: us, much, Aphtanides · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aphtanides, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 us	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 much	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 tell	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 ocean	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ocean	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ocean	amod
20	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fortifications	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fortifications	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fortifications	det
24	fortifications	fortification	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seen	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 Malta	case
26	Malta	Malta	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fortifications	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sepulchres	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sepulchres	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sepulchres	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sepulchres	det
31	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sepulchres	amod
32	sepulchres	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Egypt	case
34	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 sepulchres	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 looked	nsubj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sepulchres	parataxis
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 looked	compound:prt
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 looked	obl
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 kind	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 kind	det
44	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 veneration	case
46	veneration	veneration	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 kind	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Aphtanides	us			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent
2	have	past	Aphtanides not said here	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · perfect	Aphtanides			of the great ocean	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	look up	past	that		Aphtanides	with a kind of veneration	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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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