Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 51
Do you remember how we got our first boy, and then Mary, Niels, Peter, John, and Christian?'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: remember, get · To what, where: first boy · 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), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | ccomp |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mary | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Mary | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Mary | advmod |
| 13 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Niels | punct |
| 15 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mary | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Peter | punct |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mary | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 John | punct |
| 19 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mary | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Christian | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Christian | cc |
| 22 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · do-support | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | we | our first boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=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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