Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 36

"No, that is impossible," replied the old grandfather; "but I have seen it, and I have tried to carve it in wood, as I have retained it in my memory.

Who acts: that, old grandfather, daughter · What happens: be, reply, see, try, carve, retain · To what, where: face, wood, memory · 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 (that, old grandfather, daughter), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 impossible	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 impossible	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grandfather	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grandfather	amod
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seen	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 seen	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seen	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 impossible	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tried	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tried	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tried	aux
24	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 impossible	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carve	mark
26	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carve	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 wood	case
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carve	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 retained	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 retained	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 retained	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 retained	aux
34	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 carve	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 retained	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 memory	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 memory	nmod:poss
38	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 retained	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that			impossible property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the old grandfather				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see in a quote	present · perfect	daughter	face			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	try in a quote	present · perfect	daughter				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	carve not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	face	wood		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in wood=Destination
6	retain in a quote	present · perfect	daughter	face	my memory		tree rules

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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