Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 4

At the same time, the kind-hearted old man who lived by himself in the upper storey of the house came in; he led a lonely life, for he had no wife and children; but he loved the children of others very much, and he could tell so many fairy tales and stories, that it was a pleasure to hear him.

Who acts: hearted old man, man · What happens: live, come in, lead, have, love, tell · To what, where: upper storey, lonely life, wife, children, many fairy tales, pleasure · 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 (hearted old man, man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hearted	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 lived	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 storey	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 storey	det
18	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 storey	amod
19	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 storey	nmod
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 led	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 led	nsubj
27	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 life	det
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 life	amod
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 had	case
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 led	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 wife	det
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 children	cc
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 wife	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 loved	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 loved	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 loved	nsubj
42	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 children	det
44	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 loved	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 others	case
46	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 children	nmod
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADV	_	42 loved	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 tell	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 tell	cc
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 tell	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 tell	aux
53	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 loved	conj
54	so	so	ADV	_	55 many	advmod
55	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 tales	amod
56	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tales	compound
57	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 tell	obj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 stories	cc
59	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 tales	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 pleasure	punct
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 pleasure	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 pleasure	expl
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 pleasure	cop
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 pleasure	det
65	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 tell	ccomp
66	to	to	PART	_	67 hear	mark
67	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 pleasure	csubj
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 hear	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the hearted old man		the upper storey of the house		by man	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storey=Location
2	come in	past	the hearted old man			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lead	past	man	a lonely life				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	have	past	man	no wife and children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	love	past	man	the children of others				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	could	man	many fairy tales and stories				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
7	is a	past		a pleasure				tree rules
8	hear	to-infinitive		man				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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