Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 15

Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night, or on that same evening. "

Who acts: MOON · What happens: appear, tell, see · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MOON), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 appears	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appears	nsubj
3	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 appears	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 thing	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thing	nummod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 me	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 another	cc
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 me	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 seen	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tells	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
19	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 night	amod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 evening	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 evening	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 evening	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 evening	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 evening	amod
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	MOON			whenever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	MOON	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	see	present · perfect	MOON		evening; night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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