Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 71

How clearly, too, we are reminded of persons whom we have not seen for many years; they start up suddenly to the mind's eye with all their peculiarities as living realities.

Who acts: we, persons · What happens: remind, not see, start up · To what, where: we, persons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, persons), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 clearly	advmod
2	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	8 reminded	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 clearly	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reminded	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reminded	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reminded	aux:pass
8	reminded	remind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 persons	case
10	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reminded	obl
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seen	obl
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 persons	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seen	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 start	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 start	nsubj
21	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reminded	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 start	compound:prt
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 start	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 eye	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mind	det
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eye	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 mind	case
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 start	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 peculiarities	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 peculiarities	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 peculiarities	nmod:poss
32	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 start	obl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 realities	case
34	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 realities	amod
35	realities	reality	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 start	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	present · passive		we		of persons; clearly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of person=Topic
2	not see	present · perfect	we	persons	year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	start up	present	persons = person			to the mind's eye; with persons's peculiarities; as living realities; suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with peculiarity=Subeventuality

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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