Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 144
An echo of the past, sounds long vanished.
Who acts: echo · What happens: vanish
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 (echo), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 echo | det |
| 2 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 past | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 past | det |
| 5 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 echo | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounds | punct |
| 7 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 vanished | nsubj |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 vanished | advmod |
| 9 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | a echo of the past | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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