Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 57

Soon afterwards the children and grandchildren came, for they knew very well that it was the golden wedding-day; they had already wished them joy and happiness in the morning, but the old people had forgotten it, although they remembered things so well that had passed many, many years ago.

Who acts: children, hand, old people, people · What happens: come, know, be, wish, forget, remember · To what, where: golden wedding day, children, hand, things

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 (children, hand, old people, people), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 afterwards	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grandchildren	cc
6	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 children	conj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 knew	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 knew	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 day	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 day	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 day	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
19	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 wedding	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	obl:unmarked
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wished	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wished	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wished	aux
25	already	already	ADV	_	26 wished	advmod
26	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wished	obj
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wished	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 happiness	cc
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 joy	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 morning	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happiness	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 forgotten	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 forgotten	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 people	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 forgotten	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 forgotten	aux
40	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 forgotten	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 remembered	punct
43	although	although	SCONJ	_	45 remembered	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 remembered	nsubj
45	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
46	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 remembered	obj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 well	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 remembered	advmod
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 passed	mark
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 passed	aux
51	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 remembered	advcl
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 ago	nsubj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ago	punct
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 years	amod
55	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 ago	obl:unmarked
56	ago	ago	ADV	_	51 passed	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the children and grandchildren		afterwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	children = child		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	hand	the golden wedding day		tree rules
4	wish	past · perfect · passive		children = child		tree rules
5	forget	past · perfect	the old people	hand		tree rules
6	remember	past	people	things	well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
7	pass	past · perfect	people not said here		ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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