Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 18
He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood; and he thought, at first, that the young maiden was Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, whom he had once kissed in the dance.
Who acts: rain, hut, young maiden · What happens: not remember, have, see, stand, think, be · To what, where: hut, Annette, dance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, hut, young maiden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 remember | advmod |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 remember | ccomp |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 seen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 stood | expl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 first | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 first | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 thought | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Annette | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Annette | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Annette | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Annette | cop |
| 28 | Annette | Annette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 daughter | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 schoolmaster | det |
| 31 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 schoolmaster | case |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Annette | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kissed | punct |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 kissed | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 kissed | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 kissed | aux |
| 38 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 kissed | advmod |
| 39 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 Annette | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 dance | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dance | det |
| 42 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 kissed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | past · do-support | rain | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | participle | this hut | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | hut | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | rain | first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the young maiden | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | kiss | past · perfect | rain | Annette and the schoolmaster's daughter | the dance | once property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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