Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 30
"Years have passed since all this happened," the Moon went on to say. "
Who acts: this, Moon · What happens: pass, happen, go on, say · To what, where: Years · 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 (this, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 2 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 happened | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Years | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | the Moon | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Moon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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