Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 59

The learned man then came home, and he wrote books about what was true in the world, and about what was good and what was beautiful; and there passed days and years--yes! many years passed away.

Who acts: learned man, man, days, many years · What happens: come, write, be, pass, pass away · To what, where: books, world

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, man, days, many years), 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:pg1597:1881): 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	learned	learned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrote	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrote	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 books	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 what	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 true	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 what	cc
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 what	conj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 good	cop
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 what	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 what	cc
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 what	conj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beautiful	cop
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 what	acl:relcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 passed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 passed	cc
31	there	there	PRON	_	32 passed	expl
32	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 passed	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 years	cc
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 days	conj
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 passed	punct
37	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	41 passed	discourse
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 yes	punct
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 years	amod
40	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 passed	nsubj
41	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 passed	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the learned man			then	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past	man	books				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about what=Topic
3	is	past			the world		true property	tree rules
4	is	past					good property	tree rules
5	is	past					beautiful property	tree rules
6	pass	past	days and years		there			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pass away	past	many years				away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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