Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 153
Years passed by: Anthony's father died, and strangers lived in the old house.
Who acts: Years, father, strangers · What happens: pass by, die, live · To what, where: old house
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 (Years, father, strangers), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 passed | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
| 5 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Anthony | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 11 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | Years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | past | Anthony's father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live | past | strangers | the old house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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