Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 29

Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured, before the age could again call forth marble gods equal to those he afterwards formed.

Who acts: boy, spinning wheel, great wheel, age, wheel · What happens: turn, have, murmur, call, form · To what, where: marble gods · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, spinning wheel, great wheel, age), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	3 often	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 often	advmod
3	often	often	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 turned	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wheel	det
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wheel	compound
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wheel	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wheel	amod
18	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 murmured	nsubj
19	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 call	punct
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 call	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 age	det
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 call	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 call	aux
25	again	again	ADV	_	26 call	advmod
26	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 murmured	advcl
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 call	advmod
28	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gods	amod
29	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 call	obj
30	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 call	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 those	case
32	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 equal	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 formed	nsubj
34	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	35 formed	advmod
35	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 those	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the boy in the little room			often property	tree rules
2	have	past	the spinning wheel				tree rules
3	murmur speech: other	past	the great wheel				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	could	the age	marble gods	again	equal, forth property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient
5	form	past	wheel			afterwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «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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