Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 16

But two winters were past, and in the third the Tree was so large that the hare was obliged to go round it.

Who acts: two winters, Tree · What happens: be, oblige, go · To what, where: third, hare

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two winters, Tree), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 were	cc
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 winters	nummod
3	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADV	_	4 were	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 large	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 large	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 third	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 third	det
10	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 large	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tree	det
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 large	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 large	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 large	advmod
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 were	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 obliged	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 obliged	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 obliged	aux:pass
20	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 large	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 obliged	xcomp
23	round	round	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two winters			past property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Tree		the third	large property	tree rules
3	oblige	past · passive		the hare			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	go	to-infinitive				round hare	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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