Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 62
The pot was boiling the whole evening, and the whole of the following day.
Who acts: pot · What happens: boil, be, follow · To what, where: whole evening
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot), 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 | 2 pot | det |
| 2 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evening | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evening | cop |
| 4 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 evening | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 evening | amod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whole | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whole | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whole | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 evening | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whole | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the pot | the whole evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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