Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 149
So their chatter ran on, and so it will run on for thousands of years.
Who acts: chatter, groups · What happens: run on, chatter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chatter, groups), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 chatter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 run | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 run | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 thousands | case |
| 14 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 run | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thousands | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | groups's chatter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run on | future | chatter | for thousands of years | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for thousand=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | chatter | groups = group | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=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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