Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 91

He said he had been longing to see us so much; and he remained with us two whole happy days.

Who acts: Aphtanides · What happens: say, long, see, remain · To what, where: us · 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), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 longing	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 longing	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 longing	aux
6	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 longing	xcomp
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remained	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remained	obl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 remained	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Aphtanides				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	long	past · perfect · progressive	Aphtanides				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aphtanides not said here	us			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
4	remain	past	Aphtanides		day	with us	vn exist-47.1 «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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