Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 8

Oh! those were very long and dismal winter evenings!

Who acts: those · What happens: be · To what, where: long winter evenings

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:952): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 evenings	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 evenings	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 evenings	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 evenings	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dismal	cc
8	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evenings	compound
10	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 evenings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	those	long winter evenings					tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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