Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 28

Charming and life-like stood the little marble form, and yet the wheel of the year has turned more than a thousand times since the time when it sprang forth from the stone.

Who acts: little marble form, wheel, form · What happens: stand, turn, spring · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little marble form, wheel, form), 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:pg27200:7219): 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	Charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	xcomp
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 like	cc
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 life	punct
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Charming	conj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 form	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 form	amod
9	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 form	compound
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 turned	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 year	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wheel	nmod
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stood	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 thousand	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	21 more	fixed
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 times	det
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obl:unmarked
26	since	since	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 sprang	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sprang	nsubj
31	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 time	acl:relcl
32	forth	forth	ADV	_	31 sprang	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 stone	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stone	det
35	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sprang	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the little marble form			charming property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	present · perfect	the wheel of the year		yet; time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	spring	past	form	the stone		forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stone=Trajectory

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: 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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