Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 93

He told us he was going in a ship to Corfu and Patras, and could relate a great many stories, not only about the fishermen who lived near the gulf of Lepanto, but also of kings and heroes who had once possessed Greece, just as the Turks possess it now.

Who acts: Aphtanides, fishermen, Turks · What happens: tell, go, relate, live, possess · To what, where: us, ship, great many stories, gulf, kings · 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, fishermen, Turks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	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 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Corfu	case
11	Corfu	Corfu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ship	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Patras	cc
13	Patras	Patras	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Corfu	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 relate	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 relate	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 relate	aux
17	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stories	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	amod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	amod
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 relate	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fishermen	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fishermen	advmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 fishermen	advmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 fishermen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fishermen	det
27	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stories	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lived	nsubj
29	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fishermen	acl:relcl
30	near	near	ADP	_	32 gulf	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gulf	det
32	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lived	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Lepanto	case
34	Lepanto	Lepanto	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gulf	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 possessed	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 possessed	cc
37	also	also	ADV	_	39 kings	advmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 kings	case
39	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 possessed	nsubj:pass
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 heroes	cc
41	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 kings	conj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 possessed	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 possessed	aux
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 possessed	advmod
45	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
46	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 possessed	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 possess	punct
48	just	just	ADV	_	52 possess	advmod
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 Turks	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Turks	det
51	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	52 possess	nsubj
52	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 possess	obj
54	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 possess	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Aphtanides		us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	Aphtanides			a ship to Corfu and Patras			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location
3	relate	could	Aphtanides not said here	a great many stories and the fishermen					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
4	live	past	the fishermen			the gulf of Lepanto			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near gulf=Location
5	possess	past · perfect · passive		kings and heroes				once property	tree rules
6	possess	present	the Turks	ship			now		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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