Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 104

"I think what you once told me, the finest of all," he replied; "you told me of a thing that has never been out of my thoughts--of the good old custom of 'the bond of friendship,'--a custom I should like to follow.

Who acts: I, you, radiance, thing, custom · What happens: think, tell, reply, have, not be, like · To what, where: me, thoughts, friendship · 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 (I, you, radiance, thing), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 told	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 finest	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 finest	det
11	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 told	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 finest	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 thing	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thing	det
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	acl:relcl
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 thoughts	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 thoughts	cop
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 thoughts	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 thoughts	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 thoughts	nmod:poss
33	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 has	obj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 custom	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 custom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 custom	det
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 custom	amod
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 custom	amod
39	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thoughts	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 bond	case
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 bond	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bond	det
43	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 custom	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 friendship	case
45	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bond	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 like	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 custom	det
50	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 like	nsubj
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 like	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 like	aux
53	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	ccomp
54	to	to	PART	_	55 follow	mark
55	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 like	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you		me		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	radiance					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you		me		of a thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	a thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not is in a quote	participle				my thoughts		tree rules
7	like in a quote	should	a custom					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	follow not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a custom not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	bond in a quote			friendship				nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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