Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 131

Thus passed many years, and he was now an old man, and sat with his old wife under the blooming tree.

Who acts: boy · What happens: pass, be, sit, bloom · To what, where: old man, blooming tree

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 (boy), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 man	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wife	amod
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 tree	amod
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past				year	thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	boy	a old man		now		tree rules
3	sit	past			the blooming tree		with boy's old wife	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
4	bloom	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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: «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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