Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 17

When his uncle became communicative, he would relate stories of his youthful days, and farther back still of the warlike times in which his father had lived.

Who acts: uncle, father · What happens: become, relate, live · To what, where: stories

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, father), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 became	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 relate	advcl
5	communicative	communicative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 relate	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 relate	aux
9	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 relate	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 days	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 days	nmod:poss
13	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stories	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 farther	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 farther	cc
17	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 relate	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	19 still	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	17 farther	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 times	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 times	det
22	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 farther	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lived	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lived	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lived	aux
29	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 times	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 relate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	current's uncle			communicative property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	relate	would	uncle	stories of uncle's youthful days			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
3	live	past · perfect	uncle's father		in the warlike times		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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