Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 110

And spring came, and summer; and then it was autumn, and then winter; and a thousand pictures were reflected in the eye and in the heart of the boy; and the little girl always sang to him, “This you will never forget.”

Who acts: spring, hand, little girl, This · What happens: come, be, reflect, sing, not forget · To what, where: autumn, thousand pictures, eye, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, hand, little girl, This), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 autumn	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 autumn	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 autumn	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 autumn	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 autumn	cop
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 winter	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 winter	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 winter	advmod
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 autumn	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 reflected	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reflected	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pictures	det
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pictures	nummod
21	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reflected	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 reflected	aux:pass
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 eye	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eye	det
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reflected	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heart	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 heart	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heart	det
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eye	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 boy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boy	det
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heart	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sang	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sang	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 girl	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 girl	amod
38	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sang	nsubj
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 sang	advmod
40	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sang	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 forget	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 forget	punct
45	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 forget	nsubj:outer
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 forget	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 forget	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 forget	advmod
49	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 sang	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	spring				summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	hand	autumn and winter			then		tree rules
3	reflect	past · passive		a thousand pictures		the eye and the heart of the boy			tree rules
4	sing speech: express	past	the little girl		boy			always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not forget in a quote	future	This						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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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