Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 102
One, two, three years went by, and during the whole time he received only two letters.
Who acts: three years, Anthony · What happens: go by, receive · To what, where: two letters
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three years, Anthony), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 received | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 received | nsubj |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 two | advmod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 letters | nummod |
| 19 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 received | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | three years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | Anthony | two letters | time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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