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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 31

"'Well, do you remember?' said the old sailor, 'when we were quite small and used to run about and play--it was in the very same yard where we now are--we used to put little branches into the ground and make a garden.'

Who acts: you, we, wedding · What happens: remember, say, be, use, run about, play · To what, where: old sailor, little branches, ground, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, we, wedding), 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

punctpunctdiscoursepunctauxnsubjccomppunctpunctdetamodobjpunctpunctmarknsubjcopadvmodccompccconjmarkadvcladvmodccconjpunctnsubjcopcasedetadvmodamodparataxisadvmodnsubjadvmodadvclpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompamodobjcasedetoblccconjdetobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCT'PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTdoAUXyouPRONrememberVERB?PUNCT'PUNCTsaidVERBtheDEToldADJsailorNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTwhenSCONJwePRONwereAUXquiteADVsmallADJandCCONJusedVERBtoPARTrunVERBaboutADVandCCONJplayVERB--PUNCTitPRONwasAUXinADPtheDETveryADVsameADJyardNOUNwhereADVwePRONnowADVareVERB--PUNCTwePRONusedVERBtoPARTputVERBlittleADJbranchesNOUNintoADPtheDETgroundNOUNandCCONJmakeVERBaDETgardenNOUN.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_10 saidpunct
2''PUNCT_7 rememberpunct
3WellwellINTJ_7 rememberdiscourse
4,,PUNCT_3 Wellpunct
5dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 rememberaux
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 remembernsubj
7rememberrememberVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
8??PUNCT_7 rememberpunct
9''PUNCT_7 rememberpunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 sailordet
12oldoldADJDegree=Pos13 sailoramod
13sailorsailorNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidobj
14,,PUNCT_10 saidpunct
15''PUNCT_10 saidpunct
16whenwhenSCONJ_20 smallmark
17wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs20 smallnsubj
18werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 smallcop
19quitequiteADV_20 smalladvmod
20smallsmallADJDegree=Pos10 saidccomp
21andandCCONJ_22 usedcc
22useduseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 smallconj
23totoPART_24 runmark
24runrunVERBVerbForm=Inf22 usedadvcl
25aboutaboutADV_24 runadvmod
26andandCCONJ_27 playcc
27playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf24 runconj
28----PUNCT_35 yardpunct
29ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 yardnsubj
30wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 yardcop
31ininADP_35 yardcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 yarddet
33veryveryADV_34 sameadvmod
34samesameADJDegree=Pos35 yardamod
35yardyardNOUNNumber=Sing20 smallparataxis
36wherewhereADVPronType=Rel39 areadvmod
37wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs39 arensubj
38nownowADVPronType=Dem39 areadvmod
39arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 yardadvcl
40----PUNCT_42 usedpunct
41wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs42 usednsubj
42useduseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidconj
43totoPART_44 putmark
44putputVERBVerbForm=Inf42 usedxcomp
45littlelittleADJDegree=Pos46 branchesamod
46branchesbranchNOUNNumber=Plur44 putobj
47intointoADP_49 groundcase
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 grounddet
49groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing44 putobl
50andandCCONJ_51 makecc
51makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf44 putconj
52aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art53 gardendet
53gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing51 makeobj
54..PUNCT_10 saidpunct
55''PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1remember in a quotepresent · do-supportyouvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2say speech: ask in a quotepastthe old sailortree rules
3is in a quotepastwesmall propertytree rules
4use in a quoteparticiplewe not said herevn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5run about in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said hereabout propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6play in a quoteinfinitivewe not said herevn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7is in a quotepastweddingin the same yardtree rules
8be in a quotepresentwenowvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9use in a quotepastwevn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10put in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said herelittle branchesthe groundvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent branch=Goal
11make in a quoteinfinitivewe not said herea gardenvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product

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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