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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 remember | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sailor | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sailor | amod |
| 13 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 small | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 small | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 small | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 used | cc |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 small | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 used | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 run | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 play | cc |
| 27 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 run | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 yard | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 yard | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 yard | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 yard | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 yard | det |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 same | advmod |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 yard | amod |
| 35 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 small | parataxis |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 are | advmod |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 are | nsubj |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 are | advmod |
| 39 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 yard | advcl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 used | punct |
| 41 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 used | nsubj |
| 42 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 put | mark |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 used | xcomp |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 branches | amod |
| 46 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 put | obj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 ground | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ground | det |
| 49 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 make | cc |
| 51 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 put | conj |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 garden | det |
| 53 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 make | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | the old sailor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | we | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | participle | we not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run about in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | play in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | wedding | in the same yard | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | present | we | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | use in a quote | past | we | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | little branches | the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent branch=Goal | |||
| 11 | make in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | a garden | vn 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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