Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 16

Then he nodded his head, wiped his spectacles and put them on, and said, "Ah, yes; Holger Danske will not appear in my lifetime, but the boy who is in bed there may very likely live to see him when the event really comes to pass."

Who acts: grandfather, Holger Danske, boy, event · What happens: nod, wipe, put on, say, not appear, be · To what, where: head, spectacles, lifetime, bed, grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, Holger Danske, boy, event), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 nodded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nodded	nsubj
3	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nodded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wiped	punct
7	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nodded	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 spectacles	nmod:poss
9	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wiped	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wiped	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nodded	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Ah	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Ah	punct
19	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	16 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Ah	punct
21	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 Ah	discourse
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 appear	punct
23	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Danske	compound
24	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 appear	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 appear	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 appear	advmod
27	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nodded	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 lifetime	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lifetime	nmod:poss
30	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appear	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 live	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 live	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boy	det
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 live	nsubj
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 bed	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 bed	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 bed	case
38	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 boy	nmod
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 bed	advmod
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 live	aux
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 likely	advmod
42	likely	likely	ADV	_	43 live	advmod
43	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nodded	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 see	mark
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 live	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 see	obj
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 comes	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 event	det
49	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 comes	nsubj
50	really	really	ADV	_	51 comes	advmod
51	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 see	advcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 pass	mark
53	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 comes	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nodded	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	grandfather	grandfather's head		then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	wipe	past	grandfather not said here	grandfather's spectacles				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source
3	put on	infinitive	grandfather not said here	spectacles = spectacle				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	say speech: assert	past	grandfather not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not appear in a quote	future	Holger Danske		my lifetime			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lifetime=Location
6	is in a quote	present	the boy		bed; there			tree rules
7	live in a quote	may	the boy				likely property	tree rules
8	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	grandfather				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	come in a quote	present	the event					tree rules
10	pass in a quote	to-infinitive	the event not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «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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