Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 111
It is shorter, the performers are natural, and it has passed away the interval before tea-time."
Who acts: lover, performers · What happens: be, pass away · To what, where: lover
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, performers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shorter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shorter | cop |
| 3 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 natural | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 performers | det |
| 6 | performers | performer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 natural | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 natural | cop |
| 8 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shorter | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | aux |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shorter | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADP | _ | 13 passed | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 interval | det |
| 16 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tea | punct |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shorter | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shorter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | lover | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the performers | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass away | present · perfect · passive | lover | time | 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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