Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 170
How brightly began the history of this tree, and what is it now?
What happens: begin, be · To what, where: history
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 history | det |
| 5 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 history | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 began | parataxis |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 it | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 what | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 what | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the history of this tree | brightly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | history | 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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