Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 29

He was an old, old sailor, and she his old wife; they had already great-grandchildren, and were soon to celebrate their golden wedding, but they could not remember the date, and the elder-tree mother was sitting in the tree and looked as pleased as this one here. '

Who acts: man, name, wife, tree mother · What happens: be, wife, have, celebrate, not remember, sit · To what, where: old old sailor, great grandchildren, golden wedding, date, tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, name, wife, tree mother), 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	7 sailor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sailor	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sailor	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sailor	amod
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wife	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wife	nsubj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sailor	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sailor	parataxis
17	already	already	ADV	_	20 grandchildren	advmod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grandchildren	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
20	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 celebrate	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 celebrate	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 celebrate	aux
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 celebrate	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 celebrate	mark
26	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wedding	nmod:poss
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wedding	amod
29	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 celebrate	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 remember	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 remember	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remember	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 remember	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 remember	advmod
35	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 celebrate	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 date	det
37	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 remember	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sitting	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sitting	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mother	det
41	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tree	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 elder	punct
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mother	compound
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sitting	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 sitting	aux
46	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 tree	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 tree	det
49	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sitting	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 looked	cc
51	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 pleased	advmod
53	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 looked	xcomp
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 one	case
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 one	det
56	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pleased	obl
57	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 one	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sailor	punct
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sailor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a old old sailor and man's old wife			tree rules
2	wife		name				tree rules
3	have	past	wife	great grandchildren			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient
4	celebrate	past	wife not said here	wife's golden wedding		soon property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme
5	not remember	could	wife	the date			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme
6	sit	past · progressive	the tree mother		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
7	look	past	wife not said here			pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	wed		wife				nom wedding «event transitive»: 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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