Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 64

The little boy returned home happy and pleased, and weeks and days passed away, and nods were made to the old house, and from the old house, and then the little boy went over there again.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: return, pass away, make, go over · To what, where: weeks, nods, old house

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 returned	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 returned	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pleased	cc
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passed	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 days	cc
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 weeks	conj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 returned	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 passed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
18	nods	nod	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 passed	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 house	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 house	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 house	cc
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 went	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boy	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 boy	amod
36	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 house	conj
38	over	over	ADV	_	39 there	advmod
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 went	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the little boy				happy, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass away	participle · passive		weeks and days			away property	tree rules
3	make	past · passive		nods	the old house		to the old house	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from house=Material
4	go over	past	the little boy		there	then; again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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