Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 13

"No; I shall very likely live for thousands of your days, and my day is whole seasons long; indeed it is so long that you could never reckon it out."

Who acts: little creature, day, melancholy, you · What happens: live, be, not reckon out · To what, where: whole seasons, melancholy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little creature, day, melancholy, you), 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	_	8 live	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 live	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 live	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 live	aux
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 live	advmod
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 thousands	case
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 days	nmod:poss
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seasons	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seasons	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 day	nmod:poss
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seasons	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seasons	cop
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seasons	amod
20	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	obl
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 seasons	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 long	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 long	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 live	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 reckon	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 reckon	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 reckon	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 reckon	advmod
32	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 long	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reckon	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	32 reckon	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	shall	the little creature = creature		for thousands of your days; likely property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	my day	whole seasons	long property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	melancholy		indeed, long property	tree rules
4	not reckon out in a quote	could	you	melancholy		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute

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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