Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 26

My father told us that the child's parents had been killed by the Turks, and he talked so much about them that I dreamed of Turks all night.

Who acts: father, Turks, I · What happens: tell, kill, talk, dream · To what, where: us, parents, much · 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 (father, Turks, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 killed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parents	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 child	case
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 killed	aux:pass
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 Turks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Turks	det
15	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 killed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 talked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 talked	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talked	nsubj
19	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 talked	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 much	nmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 dreamed	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 dreamed	nsubj
26	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 talked	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Turks	case
28	Turks	turk	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dreamed	obl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dreamed	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	My father		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	kill	past · perfect · passive	the Turks	the child's parents				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	talk	past	father	much			about parents = parent	tree rules
4	dream	past	I			night	of Turks	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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