Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 45

And the old grandfather talked of the Danish lions and the Danish hearts, emblems of strength and gentleness, and explained quite clearly that there is another strength than that which lies in a sword, and he pointed to a shelf where lay a number of old books, and amongst them a collection of Holberg's plays, which are much read and are so clever and amusing that it is easy to fancy we have known the people of those days, who are described in them.

Who acts: old grandfather, strength, grandfather, we, Holberg · What happens: talk, explain, be, lie, point, lay · To what, where: sword, shelf, number, plays, people, days · 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 (old grandfather, strength, grandfather, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandfather	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandfather	amod
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lions	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lions	det
8	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lions	amod
9	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hearts	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hearts	det
12	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hearts	amod
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lions	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 emblems	punct
15	emblems	emblem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lions	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 strength	case
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 emblems	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gentleness	cc
19	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strength	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 explained	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 explained	cc
22	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 clearly	advmod
24	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	22 explained	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 is	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 explained	ccomp
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 strength	det
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 strength	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lies	nsubj
33	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 strength	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sword	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sword	det
36	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lies	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pointed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 pointed	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pointed	nsubj
40	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 shelf	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 shelf	det
43	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pointed	obl
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 lay	advmod
45	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 shelf	acl:relcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 number	det
47	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lay	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 books	case
49	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 books	amod
50	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 number	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 them	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 them	cc
53	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	54 them	case
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	obl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 collection	det
56	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 them	appos
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 plays	case
58	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 plays	nmod:poss
59	's	's	PART	_	58 Holberg	case
60	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 collection	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 read	punct
62	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 read	nsubj:pass
63	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 read	aux:pass
64	much	much	ADV	_	65 read	advmod
65	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 plays	acl:relcl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 clever	cc
67	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 clever	cop
68	so	so	ADV	_	69 clever	advmod
69	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 read	conj
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 amusing	cc
71	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 clever	conj
72	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 easy	mark
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 easy	expl
74	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 easy	cop
75	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 clever	conj
76	to	to	PART	_	77 fancy	mark
77	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 easy	ccomp
78	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	80 known	nsubj
79	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	80 known	aux
80	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	77 fancy	acl:relcl
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 people	det
82	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 known	obj
83	of	of	ADP	_	85 days	case
84	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	85 days	det
85	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 people	nmod
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	89 described	punct
87	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	89 described	nsubj:pass
88	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 described	aux:pass
89	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	85 days	acl:relcl
90	in	in	ADP	_	91 them	case
91	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	89 described	obl
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the old grandfather				of the Danish lions and the Danish hearts and emblems of strength and gentleness; amongst books = book	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	explain speech: assert	past	the old grandfather not said here				clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	another strength than that			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	present	another strength than that			a sword		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sword=Location
5	point	past	grandfather		a shelf			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shelf=Recipient
6	lay	present		a number of old books				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Result
7	read	present · passive		Holberg's plays				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	is	present					clever property	tree rules
9	be							tree rules
10	is	present					easy property	tree rules
11	know	present · perfect	we	the people of that days				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
12	describe	present · passive		that days			in people	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
13	play		Holberg					nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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