Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 2
Several evenings had passed, and the Moon was in the first quarter.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: Several evenings, first quarter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evenings | amod |
| 2 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quarter | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 quarter | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 quarter | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 quarter | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 quarter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quarter | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 quarter | amod |
| 13 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Several evenings | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Moon | the first quarter | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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